Example from 4Q127

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     4Q127, 9
     Qumran Cave 4 near the Dead Sea.
     Approximately 1st. century BC to the early 1st. century AD.
     Paraphrase of Exodus. (4Qpap ParaExod gr)
     Discoveries in the Judaean Desert IX, (DJD IX), "Qumran Cave 4: Palaeo-Hebrew and Greek Biblical Manuscripts", edited by P. Skehan, et al. Plate XLVII.

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Scanned from Plate XLVII of Discoveries in the Judaean Desert IX, (DJD IX), "Qumran Cave 4: Palaeo-Hebrew and Biblical Manuscripts", edited by P. Skehan, et al. Oxford, 1992.
Plate XLVII in DJD IX is derived from IAA 225837. Fragment 9 of 4Q127 can also be found in IAA 198980 and among the PAM images, namely: 40.633, 41.932, and 42.145. The Microfiche edition contains a good copy of PAM 42.145, while the Facsimile edition contains a good copy of 41.932.

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Primary Example:


Other Examples:

     See the shaded area on line 3 of the image below. The vertical position of the alpha relative to that of the iota that it follows is also similar to that of 7Q5.
     In addition to fragment 9, there are several other examples, as 4Q127 includes a total of 86 papyrus fragments as depicted on plate XLVII of DJD IX. Some of these additional examples can be found among fragments: 1, 2, 3, 8, 17, and 37.
     P. J. Parsons, on pages 7-12 of DJD IX, describes the palaeography and dating of all six Greek manuscripts found in Qumran Cave 4. On pages 8 and 9, he shows typical examples of letters from each of the manuscripts. The examples for 4Q127 are shown in figure 6 on page 9. The alphas from this chart are shown just beneath the image of fragment 9 found below.