Tuesday, December 23, 2025

Devorah Dimant on "land of Jerusalem" (ארץ ירשלים) in 4Q385a from Qumran

 

The locution ארץ ירשלים may reflect the situation prevalent in the author's days, in which the district of Jerusalem and the surrounding area formed a distinctive administrative unit. (Devorah Dimant, Qumran Cave 4 XXI: Parabiblical Texts, Part 4: Pseudo-Prophetic Texts [Discoveries in the Judaean Desert 30; Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2001], 161)

 

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