Suppléments qoumâniens à la Genèse

This article offers a translation and commentary of two supplements to the biblical Genesis transmitted in Qu m ran. Firstly, several columns completing the columns of the Genesis Apocryphon known since 1956. These were published in preliminary form by J. C. Greenfield, E. Qimron and their collaborators. Here we find the story of Lamech, then that of Noah the Just up to the morrow of the flood and the division of the earth among his sons. In spite of the text's affinity with Jubilees, the two are distinct in several details. Secondly, a review is given of several Hebrew manuscripts, 4Q252-254a, developping certain passages from Genesis, in particular the story of the flood and Jacob 's words regarding his sons. The most important of these manuscripts, 4Q252, is translated and commented upon. In this manuscript, a detailed chronology of the flood is presented which is strictly in accord with the Qumranic calendar of 364 days

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