ABSTRACT
Outside the Hebrew Bible, the Qumran or Dead Sea Scrolls present us with the largest corpus of Hebrew from the biblical period. Scholars have now identified the remains of over 900 scrolls, most of them extremely fragmentary (Tov 2005a: 70). Of these, over 200 represent copies of books found in the Hebrew Bible. Of the others, all but about 150 manu scripts in Aramaic and Greek are written in Hebrew. Mostly this Hebrew is identifiable as a form of BH. We have looked at the unusual language of 4QMMT already in 9.4.5.
