Biblical Archaeology Review 20:6, November/December 1994
Dead Sea Scrolls

For This You Waited 35 Years

MMT as reconstructed by Elisha Qimron and John Strugnell

i[The sixteenth (day) of it (i.e. the second month) is a Sabbath]. The twenty-third of it is a Sabbath. The thirtieth [of it is a Sabbath. The seventh of the third (month) is a Sabbath. The fourteenth of it is a Sabbath. The fifteenth of it is the Festival of Weeks. The twenty-
iifi]rst of it is a Sabbath. The twenty-eighth of it is a Sabbath. After it (i.e. the Sabbath), Sunday and Monday, [Tuesday is to be added (to this month). And the season terminates—ninety-one days. The first of the fourth (month) is a Memorial Day. The fourth]
iiiof it [is a Sabbath]. The el[eventh] of it is a Sabbath. The eighteenth of it is a Sabbath. The twenty-fifth of it is a Sabbath. The second of the fif[th (month) is a Sabbath. The third of it is the Festival of the (New) Wine …
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