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Ulrich et. al., DJD 14, p. 162; and Trebolle Barrera, “Textual Variants in 4QJudg^a and the Textual and Editorial History of the Book of Judges,” Revue de Qumran 54 (1989), p. 238.

Ulrich et al., DJD 12, p. 85. This explanation was earlier advanced in Cross, The Ancient Library of Qumran, 3rd ed. (Minneapolis, MN: Fortress, 1995), p. 135 n. 1 (essentially unchanged from the 1961 edition).

James R. Davila, “New Qumran Readings for Genesis One,” in Of Scribes and Scrolls: Studies on the Hebrew Bible, Intertestamental Judaism, and Christian Origins Presented to John Strugnell, ed. Harold W. Attridge, John J. Collins and Thomas H. Tobin (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1990), p. 11.

Qumran Cave 4-VII: Genesis to Numbers, Discoveries in the Judaean Desert (DJD) 12, ed. Eugene Ulrich et al. (Oxford: Clarendon, 1994); Qumran Cave 4-IX: Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Kings, DJD 14, ed. Ulrich et al. (Oxford: Clarendon, 1995); Qumran Cave 4-X: The Prophets, DJD 15, ed. Ulrich et al. (Oxford: Clarendon, 1997).

This article is adapted from Ronald Hendel, “Qumran and a New Edition of the Hebrew Bible,” in The Bible and the Dead Sea Scrolls, ed. James Charlesworth (N. Richland Hills, TX: Bibal, 2000), vol. 1, pp. 197–217.

Note that the wife of Eleazar and the mother of Phinehas is the daughter of Putiel (Exodus 6:25). The name “Putiel” is also probably an Egyptian loanword with the Hebrew el added as a suffix, meaning “the one whom EL has given.” See Edwin C. Hostetter, “Putiel,” Anchor Bible Dictionary, vol. 5, p. 561.

Alan Gardiner, Egypt of the Pharaohs: An Introduction (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1961), p. 133; Pierre Montet, Egypt and the Bible (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1968), p. 32.

John A. Wilson, The Culture of Ancient Egypt (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1951), p. 136; E.A. Wallis Budge, A History of Egypt, vol. 3, Egypt under the Amenemhats and Hyksos (Oosterhout, Netherlands: Anthropological Publications, 1968), p. 104.