THE SCRIPTURES AND THE SCROLLS SUPPLEMENTS TO VETUS TESTAMENTUM EDITED BY THE BOARD OF THE QUARTERLY JA. EMERTON - PHYLLIS A. BIRD - W.L. HOLLADAY A. VAN DER KOOIJ - A. LEMAIRE - R.E. MURPHY - B. OTZEN R. SMEND - JA. SOGGIN - Je. VANDERKAM - M. WEINFELD H.G.M. WILLIAMSON VOLUME XLIX THE SCRIPTURES AND THE SCROLLS STUDIES IN HONOUR OF A.S. VAN DER WOUDE ON THE OCCASION OF HIS 65TH BIRTHDAY EDITED BY F. GARCtA MARTtNEZ A. HILHORST cJ. LABUSCHAGNE AND EJ. BRILL LEIDEN • NEW YORK • KÖLN 1992 The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data The Scriptures and the serolls: studies in honour of A.S. van der Woude on the occasion of his 65th birthday / by F. Garcia Martinez, A. Hilhorst, and CJ. Labuschagne. p. cm.-(Supplements to Vetus testamentum, ISSN 0083-5889; v.49) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 9004097465 (alk. paper) I. Bible-Criticism, interpretation, etc. 2. Apocryphal books Criticism, interpretation, etc. I. Woude, A. S. van der. 11. Garcia Martinez, Florentino. 111. Hilhorst, A. IV. Labuschagne, C. J. V. Series. BS410.V452 vol. 49 [BS413] 221 s-dc20 [221.6] 92-33127 CIP ISSN 0083-5889 ISBN 90 04 09746 5 © Copyright 1992 by E.J. BrilI, Leiden, The Netherlands All rights reserved. No part 01 this publication may be reproduced, translated, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any Jorm or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission rif the publisher. Authorization to photocopy items Jor internal or personal use is gran ted by E.J. Brill provided that the appropriate fies are paid directly to Copyright Clearance Center, 27 Congress Street, SALEM MA 01970, USA. Fees are subject to change. PRINTED IN THE NETHERLANDS CONTENTS Preface ......................................... ix List of Plates ..................................... x Abbreviations ..................................... Xl E. Tov, 4QLevd (4Q26) .............................. 1 c.J. LABUSCHAGNE, 'You Shall not Boil a Kid in its Mother's Milk'. A New Proposal for the Origin of the Prohibition ... 6 J.A. EMERTON, The Translation of Isaiah 5,1 ............... 18 J.T.A.G.M. VAN RUlTEN, The Intertextual Relationship between Isa 11,6-9 and Isa 65,25 ......................... 31 W.A.M. BEUKEN, Isa 29,15-24: Perversion Reverted ......... 43 W. McKANE, Jeremiah 30,1-3, Especially 'Israel' . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 R.P. CARROLL, Night without Vision. Micah and the Prophets ... 74 C. VAN LEEUWEN, The 'Northern One' in the Composition of Joel2,19-27 .................................. 85 G. WALLIS, A Note on Ps 45,7aa ....................... 100 M.J. MULDER, Does Canticles 6,12 Make Sense? 104 B. OTZEN, Michael and Gabriel. Angelological Problems in the Book of Daniel ................................ 114 J.P.M. VAN DER PLOEG, Some Remarks on a Newly Found Syriac Text of the Book of Judith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 A. HILHORST, The Speech on Truth in 1 Esdras 4,34-41 ....... 135 P.R. DAVIES, Redaction and Sectarianism in the Qumran Scrolls. 152 M.A. KNffiB, A Note on 4Q372 and 4Q390 ................ 164 F. GARCfA MARTfNEZ, The Last Surviving Columns of 11 QNJ ... 178 G. STEMBERGER, The Maccabees in Rabbinic Tradition .. . . . . . . 193 J. NEUSNER, How the Bavli Shaped Rabbinic Discourse: The Case of Sifra ................................. 204 J.W. ROGERSON, Writing the History of Israel in the 17th & 18th Centuries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217 F. GARCfA MARTfNEZ, A Bibliography of A.S. van der Woude ... 228 Indexes ......................................... 269 Plates 286