Endnote 8 – Has Every Book of the Bible Been Found Among the Dead Sea Scrolls?

The name Bagoshe may also account for the strange form “Bougaion” as the gentilic of Haman in the LXX, as Moore has previously suggested (Moore, Esther, p. 36). If “Bougaion” is indeed derived from “Bagoshe,” it would be almost beyond doubt that the authors of the LXX, at least, knew the text of 4Q550.