Endnote 6 – Combine the Best from Each Tradition
See Tov, Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible (Minneapolis, MN: Fortress, 1992), p. 239. The reading of 4QDeutj was first presented by Patrick W. Skehan, “Qumran and the Present State of Old Testament Text Studies: The Masoretic Text,” Journal of Biblical Literature (JBL) 78 (1959), p. 21, correcting his earlier report in Skehan, “A Fragment of the ‘Song of Moses’ (Deuteronomy 32) from Qumran,” Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research (BASOR) 136 (1954), p. 12. See now the edition by Julie Duncan, DJD 14, p. 90.