CHAPTER NINE

GREEK LOANWORDS IN THE SCROLL

The (3Q15) is certainly the most remarkable manuscript of the whole collection known to us under the name “.”1 Its unique support (two thin plates of almost pure copper), its contents (a dry list of hiding places of treasures) and its language (a Hebrew rather different from the other manuscripts), place it in a unique posi- tion among the collection of manuscripts from the Dead Sea. It is little wonder that the number of studies dedicated to unravelling its “mys- tery” could by now ll a well stocked library.2

1 The rst complete edition (with transcription of the Hebrew text, drawings of the Scroll and English translation) was the much disputed book by J.M. Allegro, The Treasure of the Copper Scroll: the opening and decipherment of the most mysterious of the Dead Sea scrolls, a unique inventory of buried treasure (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1960). It was pre- ceded by the publication of a French and of an English translation by J.T. Milik in “Le rouleau de cuivre de (3Q15). Traduction et commentaire topographique,” RB 66 (1959): 321–57, and “The Copper Document from Cave III of Qumran. Translation and Commentary,” ADAJ 4–5 (1960): 137–55. The ofcial edition was prepared by J.T. Milik, “Le rouleau de cuivre provenant de la grotte 3Q (3Q15),” in Les ‘Petites grottes’ de Qumrân (ed. M. Baillet, J.T. Milik and R. de Vaux; DJD III; Oxford: Clarendon, 1962), 198–302 (= DJD III). A new edition by É. Puech, prepared on the occasion of the res- toration of the Scroll by the laboratories of the EDF—Valectra on 1994–1996, is soon to appear in the Series STDJ. 2 P. Muchowski, “Bibliography of the Copper Scroll (3Q15),” Folia Orientalia 26 (1989): 65–70 lists the most important publications up to the 1980’s. The following titles complete this bibliography up to 2002. M. Bar-Ilan, “The Process of Writing the Copper Scroll,” in Copper Scroll Studies, 198–209. K. Beyer, Die aramäischen Texte vom Toten Meer. Ergänzungsband (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1994), 224–33 (3Q15: Die Kupferrolle). G.J. Brooke and P.R. Davies (eds.), Copper Scroll Studies ( JSPSup 40; Shefeld: Shefeld Academic Press, 2002). R. Bertholon, N. Lacoudre, and J. Vasquez, “The Conservation and Restoration of the Copper Scroll from Qumran,” in Copper Scroll Studies, 12–24. P.R. Davies, “John Alle- gro and the Copper Scroll,” in Copper Scroll Studies, 25–36. H. Eshel, “Aqueducts in the Copper Scroll,” in Copper Scroll Studies, 92–107. J.E. Elwolde, “3Q15: Its Linguistic Afliation, with Lexicographical Comments,” in Copper Scroll Studies, 108–21. R. Fidler, “Inclusio and Symbolic Geography in the Copper Scroll,” in Copper Scroll Studies, 210–25. F. García Martínez and E.J.C. Tigchelaar, DSSSE, 1:232–39. S. Goranson, “Sectarian- ism, Geography, and the Copper Scroll,” JJS 43 (1992): 282–87; idem, “Further Reec- tions on the Copper Scroll,” in Copper Scroll Studies, 226–31. J.E. Harper, “26 Tons of and 65 Tons of Silver,” BAR 19 (1993): 44–45. F. Jiménez Bedman, “Los términos (jws y hns) en el Rollo de Cobre (3Q15),” Miscelénea de Estudios Arabes y Hebreos 45 (1996): 27–35; idem, “Lexical Analysis of the Copper Scroll from the Perspective of Mishnaic 146 chapter nine

Hebrew,” in Jewish Studies at the Turn of the 20th Century. Proceedings of the 6th EAJS Congress, Toledo, July 1998 (ed. J. Targarona Borrás and A. Sáenz-Badillos; 2 vols.; Leiden: Brill, 1999), 1:65–71; idem, “El misterio del Rollo de Cobre (3Q15),” in Paganos, Judíos y Cris- tianos en los Textos de Qumrán (ed. J. Trebolle Barrera; Madrid: Trotta, 1999), 229–41; idem, El misterio del Rollo de Cobre de Qumrán. Análisis lingüístico (Biblioteca Midrásica 25; Estella: Verbo Divino, 2002). W. Johnson, “Professor Henry Wright Baker: The Copper Scroll and his Career,” in Copper Scroll Studies, 37–44. I. Knohl, “New Light on the Copper Scroll and 4QMMT,” in Copper Scroll Studies, 233–56. A. Lange, “The Meaning of Dema‘ in the Copper Scroll and Ancient Jewish Literature,” in Copper Scroll Studies, 122–38. J.M. Laperrousaz, “Méthodologie et datation des manuscrits de la mer Morte: le Rouleau de cuivre 3Q15,” in New Qumran Texts and Studies (eds. G. Brooke and F. García Martínez; STDJ 15; Leiden: Brill, 1994), 233–41. J.K. Lefkovits, The Copper Scroll (3Q15): A Reevalu- ation, A New Reading, Translation, and Commentary (STDJ 25; Leiden: Brill, 1999); idem, “The Copper Scroll Treasure: Fact or Fiction? The Abbreviation kk versus ˆyrkk,” in Copper Scroll Studies, 139–54. B. Lesley Segal, “The Copper Scroll: Novel Approaches,” in Copper Scroll Studies, 271–75. J. Lübbe, “The Copper Scroll and Language Issues,” in Copper Scroll Studies, 155–62. M.J. Lundberg and B. Zuckerman, “When Images Meet: The Potential of Photographic and Computer Imaging Technology for the Study of the Copper Scroll,” in Copper Scroll Studies, 45–57. P. Mandel, “On the Duplicate Copy of the Copper Scroll (3Q15),” RevQ 16/61 (1993): 74. P.K. McCarter, “The Mysterious Copper Scroll. Clues to Hidden Treasure,” Bible Review 8/4 (1992): 34–41; idem, “The Copper Scroll Treasure as an Accumulation of Religious Offerings,” in Meth- ods of Investigation of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Khirbet Qumran Site: Present Realities and Future Prospects (ed. M.O. Wise et al.; Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 722; New York: New York Academy of Sciences, 1994), 461–63. L. Morawiecki, “The Cop- per Scroll Treasure: a Fantasy or Stock Inventory?,” Qumran chronicle 4 (1994): 169–74. P. Muchowski, Zwój miedziany (3Q15). Implikacje spornych kwestii lingwistycznych (Interna- tional institute of Ethnolinguistic and Oriental Studies, Monograph Series 4; Postnan, 1993); idem, “Dysorthographic Forms 4apôn and ‘akôn on 3Q15,” in Inter-testamental Essays in Honour of Józef Tadeusz Milik (ed. Z.L. Kapera; Qumranica Moglinensia 6; Krakow: Enigma, 1992), 131–33; idem, “Language of the Copper Scroll in the Light of Phrases Denoting the Directions of the World,” in Methods of Investigation of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Khirbet Qumran Site, 319–27; idem, “Two Proposals of Reading in the Eight Column of 3Q15,” The Qumran Chronicle 4 (1994): 183–85; idem, “The Origin of 3Q15: Forty Years of Discussion,” in Copper Scroll Studies, 257–70. S.J. Pfann, “Kelei Dema‘: Tithe Jars, Scroll Jars and Cookie Jars,” in Copper Scroll Studies, 163–79. E. Puech, “Quelques résultats d’un nouvel examen du Rouleau de Cuivre (3Q15),” RevQ 18/70 (1997): 163–90; idem, “Some Results of the Restoration of the Copper Scroll by EDF Mécénat,” in The Dead Sea Scrolls. Fifty Years After Their Discovery. Proceedings of the Congress, July 20–25, 1997 (ed. L.H. Schiffman, E. Tov and J.C. VanderKam; Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, The , 2000), 884–94; idem, “Some Results of a New Exami- nation of the Copper Scroll (3Q15), in Copper Scroll Studies, 58–89. L.H. Schiffman, “The Architectural Vocabulary of the Copper Scroll and the ,” in Copper Scroll Studies, 180–95. H. Stegemann, Die Essener, Qumran, Johannes der Täufer und Jesus. Ein Sach- buch (Freiburg: Herder, 1993), 104–108. B. Thiering, “The Copper Scroll: King’s Herod Bank Account?,” in Copper Scroll Studies, 276–87. L. Tov, “Some Palaeographical Obser- vations Regarding the Cover Art,” in Copper Scroll Studies, 288–90. M.O. Wise, “ J. Wilmot and the Copper Scroll,” in Copper Scroll Studies, 291–310. A. Wolters, “The Cop- per Scroll and the Vocabulary of ,” RevQ 14/55 (1990): 483–95; idem, “Apocalyptic and the Copper Scroll,” JNES 49 (1990): 145–54; idem, “Literary Analysis and the Copper Scroll,” in Intertestamental Essays in Honour of Józef Tadeusz Milik, 339–52; idem, “History and the Copper Scroll,” in Methods of Investigation of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Khirbet Qumran Site, 285–98; idem, The Copper Scroll: Overview, Text and Translation (Shefeld: Shefeld Academic Press, 1996); idem, “The Shekinah in the Copper Scroll: