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4Q121 (according to the old system as:4QLXXNumb gr,Rahlfs 803) is aSeptuagint 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.[1] It was found inQumran in Cave 4. This fragment is also numbered 803 in thelist of manuscripts of the Septuagint byAlfred Rahlfs. The manuscript has been assignedpalaeographically between 30 BCE and 68 CE.
This manuscript comprises 23 fragments and three columns.[2]
The text has affinity toward Hebrew Pentateuch,[3] which, according to Robert J. Wilkinson, may be considered akaige recension of the Greek Scriptures.[4]
P. W. Skehan claims that the "reconstruction, spacing would seem to allow either κυριος [Kyrios] or יהוה [YHWH], whereas ιαω as inpap4QLXXLevb and the (Christian) abbreviation ΚϹ [kappa-sigma] would be too short.”[5]
The manuscript was published and described in 1992 by Patrick Skehan inQumran 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.
This manuscript is kept at theRockefeller Museum in Jerusalem (Gr. 265 [4Q121]).
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