4Q121 (according to the old system as: 4QLXXNum^b gr, Rahlfs 803) is a

Septuagint The Greek Old Testament, or Septuagint (, ; from the la, septuaginta, lit=seventy; often abbreviated ''70''; in Roman numerals, LXX), is the earliest extant Greek translation of books from the Hebrew Bible. It includes several books beyond ...

manuscript written on parchment (made of animal skin), dated to the 1st century BCE or CE. The scroll contains fragments of the biblical Book of Numbers 3:40-43; 4:5-16. It was found in

Qumran Qumran ( he, קומראן; ar, خربة قمران ') is an archaeological site in the West Bank managed by Israel's Qumran National Park. It is located on a dry marl plateau about from the northwestern shore of the Dead Sea, near the Israeli ...

in Cave 4. This fragment is also numbered 803 in the septuagint manuscript, list of manuscripts of the Septuagint by Alfred Rahlfs. The manuscript has been assigned palaeographically between 30 BCE and 68 CE.

Description

This manuscript comprises 23 fragments and three columns.

Version

The text has affinity toward Hebrew Pentateuch, which, according to Robert J. Wilkinson, may be considered a kaige rescension of the Greek Scriptures.

Treatment to the God's name

P. W. Skehan claims that the "reconstruction, spacing would seem to allow either κυριος [''Kyrios''] or יהוה [''YHWH''], whereas ιαω as in 4Q120, pap4QLXXLevb and the (Christian) abbreviation ΚϹ [''kappa-sigma''] would be too short.”

History

The manuscript was published and described in 1992 by Patrick Skehan in ''Qumran cave 4.4 (Discoveries in the Judaean desert 9)''. The old sign of the scroll indicates that it was found in the cave 4, which is the manuscript of the LXX or Septuagint, containing the contents of the Book of Numbers.

Actual location

This manuscript is kept at the Rockefeller Museum in Jerusalem (Gr. 265 [4Q121]).

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