The Use of Greek at Qumran: Manuscript and Epigraphic Evidence for a Marginalized Language.
Abstract Treatments of language use at Qumran have tended to marginalize the evidence for Greek language use among the Covenanters, on the basis of the observation that far more of the surviving texts are written in Hebrew or Aramaic. This paper examines the meager evidence for Greek use at the site...
| Published in: | Dead Sea Discoveries Vol. 19; no. 2; pp. 177 - 198 |
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