 | This article shouldspecify the language of its non-English content, using{{langx}},{{transliteration}} for transliterated languages, and{{IPA}} for phonetic transcriptions, with an appropriateISO 639 code. Wikipedia'smultilingual support templates may also be used.See why.(February 2023) |
4Q122 (4Q LXXDeut;TM 62297;LDAB 3458,Rahlfs 819) – is aseptuagint manuscript written onparchment (prepared from animal skin), dated from second century B.C.E.. The scroll contains a fragment of the biblicalBook of Deuteronomy 11:4.[1] It was found in a cave atQumran in Cave 4. This fragment is also referred to as number 819 on thelist of the Septuagint manuscripts according classification system byAlfred Rahlfs.
The manuscript was published and described in 1992 byPatrick W. Skehan in his publication ofQumran cave 4.4 (Discoveries in the Judaean desert 9). Old designations roll indicates that it was found in Cave 4.
Preserved text comes from Deuteronomy 11: 4. It contains 27-28 characters per line.[1].
]•ἐρυθρᾶς ἐπὶ [
]•κόντων α [
]καὶ ἀπώ• [
The letters written in red font and underlined were reconstructed.
Reconstructed preserved part of the LXX Deut 11:4
τῆςἐρυθρᾶς ἐπὶ προσώπου αὐτῶν
καταδιωκόντων αὐτῶν ἐκ τῶν ὀπίσω
Full verse LXX Deut 11:4:
4καὶ ὅσα ἐποίησε τὴν δύναμιν τῶν Αἰγυπτίων, τὰ ἅρματα αὐτῶν καὶ τὴν ἵππον αὐτῶν, καὶ τὴν δύναμιν αὐτῶν, ὡς ἐπέκλυσε τὸ ὕδωρ τῆς θαλάσσης τῆςἐρυθρᾶς ἐπὶ προσώπου αὐτῶν καταδιωκόντων αὐτῶν ἐκ τῶν ὀπίσω ὑμῶνκαὶ ἀπώλεσεν αὐτοὺς Κύριος ἕως τῆς σήμερον ἡμέρας,5[2]
Romanized:
4 kai osa epoiēse tēn dynamin tōn Aigyptiōn, ta harmata autōn kai tēn hippon autōn, kai tēn dynamin autōn, hōs epeklyse to hydōr tēs thalassēs tēserythras epi prosōpou autōn katadiōkontōn autōn ek tōn opisō hymōnkai apōlesen autous Kyrios heōs tēs sēmeron hēmeras,5
NIV translation:
4 what he did to the Egyptian army, to its horses and chariots, how he overwhelmed them with the waters of the Red Sea as they were pursuing you, and how the Lord brought lasting ruin on them.5
This manuscript is stored in theRockefeller Museum inJerusalem (Gr. 265 [4Q122]).[3]