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Article: Religious fragments.('Miqsat Ma'ase Ha-Torah', a Dead Sea Scroll)(humor)(Column)
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- The Christian Century
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- August 16, 1995
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Clarendon press has now published a translation and commentary on "MMT," or Miqsat Ma'ase Ha-Torah, a Dead Sea Scroll over which scholars fought all but bloodily for 35 years (rights of access and translation were at stake). Biblical Archaeology Review (November-December 1994) published it. "For This You Waited 35 Years." It takes up six pages of Hebrew transcription and English translation, including brackets and dots, to mark guesses or intrusions and places where things were missing from the crumbly scroll. Thus.
17 Aaron should [... And]
18 [concerning] the hides of cattle [and sheep that they ... from]
19 their [hides] vessels [... to]
20 ...