Longacre, Drew. "Developmental Stage, Scribal Lapse, or Physical Defect? 1QIsaa’s Damaged Exemplar for Isaiah Chapters 34–66." Dead Sea Discoveries 20, no. 1 (2013): 17-50.
Abstract
The Great Isaiah Scroll from Qumran
(1QIsaa) does not generally reflect a text form earlier than the
Masoretic text. Instead, the convergence in 1QIsaa of patterns of
spacing irregularities, literary
and textual problems, and secondary supplementations, as well as a consistent
pattern of distribution, are best explained on the basis of the hypothesis of
an exemplar for chapters 34-66 with a damaged bottom edge. Upon reaching the defective edge in each column
of his exemplar, the scribe dealt with any lacunose or illegible text in one of
two ways before continuing with the unaffected text at the top of the subsequent
exemplar column. Sometimes he left blank spaces in his new copy to be filled in
with the correct text from other manuscripts at a later time. At other times he
attempted full or partial reconstructions of the text based on whatever text
remained legible in the damaged exemplar, memory, and contextual clues.
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