Dead Sea Scrolls Exhibit, Book of Job.

Date:   6/24/2007 1:17:10 AM ( 17 y ago)

11:14 PM
June 24, 2007

This is part of the Dead Sea Scroll exhibit
at the Natural History Museum in San Diego.
More on this later.

I was told by John, through Kevin Ryerson,
that in a past life, I was a scribe on this book.
This will be interesting to see.
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http://www.sdnhm.org/scrolls/description.html


5. Targum Job (NEW)
11Q10
Scroll type: Biblical text
Date: 1st century CE (30-50 CE)
Language: Aramaic
Discovered: Cave 11, 1956
Job 30:13-20; 30:X, 27-31:1; 31:8-16

Four manuscripts of the book of Job were discovered at Qumran. These fragments are from one of two targums, or translations, of the original Hebrew of Job into Aramaic, the predominant language of Judea after the Babylonian Exile. This text is the earliest targum of a biblical book.

The Hebrew text of Job, full of contradictory ideas and grammatical problems, is the most difficult book in the Hebrew Bible to understand. Around the time of the Dead Sea Scrolls, Job probably challenged the most educated of readers. The story of Job's suffering raises difficult issues regarding God and his intentions toward humanity. The Aramaic deviates from the Hebrew version, which illustrates the difficulty of translating the scroll.

Dr. Bruce Zuckerman, Professor of Hebrew Bible at the University of Southern California, has studied this scroll extensively. He asks, "How did the translator understand the nuances of Hebrew terms? Why did he choose particular Aramaic words to reflect a given Hebrew passage? Was he willing to change things if he thought the original text of Job might give an inappropriate depiction of God? Using new and powerful tools in computer imaging, I am finding out a lot that I did not know before."


 

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