Michael E. Stone: Difference between revisions

With Esther Eshel he edited the 4Q464 manuscript,<ref>{{cite journal | title = An Exposition on the Patriarchs (4Q464) and Two Other Documents (4Q464a and 4Q464b) | journal = Le Muséon | volume = 105 |year = 1992 | pages = 243–264| doi = 10.2143/MUS.105.3.2006049 | last1 = Stone | first1 = M.E. | last2 = Eschel | first2 = E. | issue = 3 }}</ref> and with Esther Chazon a fragmentary work on the end times. Likewise, in his edition of fragments from the Testament of Naphtali, Stone showed that the fragment found at [[Qumran]] was included in altered form in the Greek Testament of Naphtali.<ref>{{cite journal | title = The Qumran Corner: Testament of Naphtali | journal = JJS Journal of Jewish Studies| volume = 47 | issue = 2 |year = 1996 | pages = 311–321| doi = 10.18647/1902/JJS-1996 | last1 = Stone| first1 = Michael E.}} {{citation | contribution = 4QTestament of Naphtali | title = Qumran Cave 4. XVII: Parabiblical Texts, Part 3 (DJD 22) | editor-last = Brooke | editor-first = G.J. | location = Oxford | publisher = Calrendon |year = 1996}} | pages = 73-82</ref> Rabbi [[Moshe ha-Darshan]], author of the Midrash Genesis Rabbati (France, eleventh century) knew of a similar or identical document to the Qumran one in a semitic language. From this the question of literary transmission from the days of the Second Temple to the Middle Ages arose acutely.