Palaeo-Hebrew: a new advance

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Palaeo-Hebrew: a new advance

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In the latest Revue de Qumran, t. 35, f. 2 no. 122, pages 161-173
(I do consider RevQ a good source, even if no academic source is infallible. Full disclosure: I have published in RevQ.)

Andrew Perrot and Emile Puech,
"Cryptic C 4Q363a as a Palaeo-Hebrew Manuscript: 4Qpalaeo-Hebrew 363a"

Abstract:
"A close look at the fragments of 4Q363a reveals a cursive type of palaeo-Hebrew script, and not a new cryptic script (Cryptic C). The remains of the text preserved reveal that it is not a copy of a biblical book but seem to suggest a scene of devastation of a sanctuary of a city by armed bandits. It could be an allusion to the temple of Jerusalem plundered and desecrated, with dead (?) and prisoners, probably by Antiochus IV Epiphanes during his campaigns of 170-168 (see 4Q248)."

They add, p.173, that the ms is earlier than and not referring to AEmilius Scaurus and Pompeius, as had previously been proposed.
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