Friday, July 19, 2024

4QXIIa (4Q76) Not Placing Malachi as the final book of the Minor Prophets

  

4QXIIa (4Q76)

The script is dated by the editor to the early Hasmonean period, c. 150-125 BCE.

 

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The sequence of the books in this manuscript is a matter of controversy. It is clear that the book of Malachi is not the final text in the manuscript. The editor of the official edition placed Jonah after Malachi, but this is a topic of ongoing debate. (The Hebrew University Bible: The Twelve Prophets, ed. Michael Segan and Shemaryahu Talmonz”l [Jerusalem: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2024], xxxi)

 

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