4Q252 and the Flood Chronology of Genesis 7-8: a Text-Critical Solution
Abstract
The recent preliminary publication in JJS of two columns of 4Q252 (= 4QCommGena, formerly 4QpGena), a sectarian rewriting of portions of Genesis, has occasioned some renewed interest in the problem of the flood chronology in Genesis 7-8.1 The readings in the Qumran fragment present a striking pattern of agreements and disagreements with the variant chronologies in the Masoretic Text (M) and the Septuagint (G), and correspond in some interesting respects with the dates in Jubilees (Jub.).2 Commentators on Genesis and on biblical chronology have long wrestled with the discrepancies among these variant chronologies, particularly with the puzzling chronology of M.3 The new data
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Driver, D. R. (2019) · Journal of the Bible and its Reception · doi:10.1515/jbr-2019-1003
Chronology in the Flood Narrative (Gen 6-9)
Napora, K. (2016) · Sympozjum/Sympozjum - Wyższe Seminarium Misyjne Zgromadzenia Księży Najświętszego Serca Jezusowego
- Authors
- Hendel, R. S.
- Affiliations
- Southern Methodist University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Hendel, Ronald S.
- Venue
- Dead Sea Discoveries
- Publisher
- Walter de Gruyter GmbH
- Published
- 1995
- Volume
- 2
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 72-79
- ISSN
- 0929-0761 (ISSN-L)
- 1568-5179
- OpenAlex
- W1978501553
- Semantic Scholar
- 59dd9ad76ad90f2a452dd16d50dc9ac7f76c0e0c
- Cited by
- 2
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2019: 1 · 2016: 1
- FWCI
- 0.00
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Dead Sea Discoveries (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Religious studies › Biblical Studies and Interpretation
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Historical and Linguistic Studies
- Keywords
- flood chronology, Qumran, Masoretic text, Septuagint, jubilee, biblical chronology, textual criticism
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