The Thanksgiving Scroll.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Newsom, Carol A.

Series:

Oxford Commentary on the Dead Sea Scrolls Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Thanksgiving Psalms--Commentaries.

Thanksgiving Psalms.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (369 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2026.

Summary:

This is the first commentary on The Thanksgiving Scroll, a collection of first-person prayer poetry from the Dead Sea Scrolls, since the 1960s, and the first since the scroll from Cave 1 was reconstructed. It also addresses scholarly debate around the authorship and function of the collection.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series

Title Page

Copyright Page

Preface

Table of Contents

Abbreviations

Sigla

In the Hebrew Text

In the English Text

Introduction, By Eileen M. Schuller

THE PUBLICATION OF THE SCROLL

Discovery and Purchase

First Publications

The State of the Scroll

The Reconstruction of the Scroll

Publication of the Cave 4 Hodayot Manuscripts

The DJD Publication of 1QHa and Subsequent Developments

MATERIAL DESCRIPTION OF THE SCROLL

PALEOGRAPHY AND DATING

SCRIBAL PRACTICE AND ORTHOGRAPHY

Introduction, By Carol A. Newsom

AUTHORSHIP, STRUCTURE, AND EDITORIAL DEVELOPMENT IN 1QHa

Framing of the Issues in the 1950s and 1960s

The Impact of the Reconstruction of 1QHa and the Publication of 4QHa-4QpapHf

Implications for the Category "Hodayot of the Community"

The Significance of the Framing of the Teacher Collection By the Maskil

Rhetorical Function of the Teacher Psalms and the Structure of the Teacher Corpus

The Hermeneutics of the Maskil's Framing of the Teacher Psalms

A First Edition of the Hodayot: Columns 9-19

A Second Edition of the Hodayot: Columns 9-28

A Third Edition of the Hodayot: Columns 1-28

Other Editions Or Excerpted Text Collections

Co-existence of Multiple Editions and Contexts of Use

Editions, Studies, and Tools, By Eileen M. Schuller

TEXT, TRANSLATIONS, COMMENTARY, AND NOTES

1. 1QHa 1:1-3:32. Praise of God By the Community

2. 1QHa 3:33-4:7. Praise and Eschatological Comfort

3. 1QHa 4:8-5:11. Gratitude for God's Protection of the Speaker From Sin and Evil Spirits

Column 5

Column 4

4. 1QHa 5:12-6:33. Primordial Mysteries and the Role of the Maskil

5. 1QHa 6:34-8:41. Gratitude for God's Enabling the Speaker's Moral Action and Petition for Continuing Support.

6. 1QHa 9:1-10:4. The Maskil's Introduction to the Teacher Collection

7. 1QHa 10:5-21. The Teacher's Role Between Opponents and the Community

8. 1QHa 10:22-32. The Teacher Besieged By Enemies

9. 1QHa 10:33-11:5. God Rescues the Teacher From His Enemies

10. 1QHa 11:6-19. Eschatological Destruction of the Teacher's Enemies

11. 1QHa 11:20-37. Eschatological Deliverance and Judgment

12. 1QHa 11:38-12:5. A Short Psalm of Protection Linking 10:5-11:37 With 12:6-15:28

13. 1QHa 12:6-13:6. Mediators of Deceit and the Teacher Who Illumines the Faces of Many

14. 1QHa 13:7-21. Protected Among the Gentiles, Mediator of the Covenant

15. 1QHa 13:22-15:8. Confronting and Defining Betrayal

16. 1QHa 15:9-28. God's Sustaining and Exalting of the Teacher

17. 1QHa 15:29-36 and 15:37-16:4. Editorial Reflections On the Teacher Psalms

Column 16

Column 15

18. 1QHa 16:5-17:36. The Community as Garden, the Teacher as Gardener: A Mashal of Flourishing, Languishing, and Vindication

19. 1QHa 17:38-18:14. First Editorial Response to the Teacher Collection: Hymnic Praise of God

Column 18

Column 17

20. 1QHa 18:16-19:5. Second Editorial Response to the Teacher Collection: Judgment and Spiritual Guidance

21. 1QHa 19:6-20:6. God's Character, Human Destiny, and Eschatological Joy

22. 1QHa 20:7-22:42. A Calendar of Prayer

Divine Sovereignty and Human Lowliness

23. 1QHa 23:1-25:33. God's Empowerment of the Maskil and His Praise of God's Judgment On the Angels

24. 1QHa 25:34-27:[?]‌. The Maskil's Heavenly Liturgy

Frg. 4

Frg. 5

Frg. 6

25. 1QHa. Fragments From Cols. 27 and 28 and Unplaced Fragments

1QHa

Fragments in the Hand of Scribe A

Frg. A1

Frg. A2

Frg. A3

Frg. A4

Frg. A5

Frg. A6

Frg. A7

Frg. A8

Fragments in the Hand of Scribe C

Frg. C1.

Frg. C2

Frg. C3

Frg. C4

Frg. C5

Frg. C6

Frg. C7

Frg. C8

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Index of Ancient Sources

Index of Modern Authors.

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Other Format:

Print version: Newsom, Carol A. The Thanksgiving Scroll

ISBN:

9780191043727

OCLC:

1594773719