Studies on The Texts of Desert Judah155 Rewriting Generations Truth: Words Qahat and Manuscript 4Q542* in Context

This book offers a thorough material-palaeographic analysis of Qahat-related manuscripts and explores how a multi-layered perspective on social location(s) enhances interpretative possibilities, thereby highlighting the eschatological nature of the text in a broader Second Temple Period context. Rewriting Generations of Truth takes the text and manuscript evidence of Words of Qahat (4Q542*) as a vantage point to assess editorial methods and textual classification of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Van der Schoor argues for a different distribution of 4Q542 and 4Q547 fragments, employing the resulting manuscript to consider writing and correction practices in scribal communities behind the Scrolls. Based on terminological similarities, she correlates textual traditions beyond linguistic boundaries and alleged provenance. Contextualising Words of Qahat within the Second Temple Period, particularly 4QApocalypse of Weeks, 4QTime of Righteousness and 4QLevi Apocryphon, highlights sapiential and eschatological elements in Words of Qahat.