4Q240

4Q240 ( or 4QCant^a) is believed to be a commentary (or pesher) on the Song of Songs, also known as 'Canticles'. Written in Hebrew, it was found in Cave 4 at Qumran in the West Bank and comprises part of the Dead Sea Scrolls. From its palaeography (script) it has been identified as being early-Herodian.

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4Q240 in Biblical Archaeology Review

Dead Sea Scrolls topics

Texts	4Q106 4Q107 4Q108 4Q175 4Q240 4Q246 4Q252 4Q400-407 Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice 4Q448 4Q510-511 Songs of the Sage 4Q521 4QMMT 4QInstruction 6Q6 7Q5 11Q13 Melchizedek The Book of Giants The Book of Mysteries (1Q27 and 4Q299-301) Community Rule (1QS) Copper Scroll (3Q15) Damascus Document (CD) Genesis Apocryphon (1QapGen ar) Habakkuk Commentary (1QpHab) Isaiah scroll (1QIsa^a) Nahum Commentary (4QpNah) The Rule of the Blessing (1QSb) The Rule of the Congregation (1QSa) The Secret of the Way Things Are Temple Scroll (11Q19) Thanksgiving Hymns (1QH) War of the Sons of Light Against the Sons of Darkness (1QM)

Places	Qumran Qumran Caves Qumran cemetery Ein Feshkha Kohlit Secacah Wadi Murabba'at

Issues	Essenes Sadducees Carbon dating Yahad Ostracon Pesher Dual messiahs Teacher of Righteousness Wicked Priest Calendrical texts

Scholars	John Marco Allegro Joseph M. Baumgarten Pierre Benoit John J. Collins Frank Moore Cross Philip R. Davies André Dupont-Sommer Robert Eisenman Hanan Eshel Joseph Fitzmyer Katharina Galor Jamal-Dominique Hopkins Jean-Baptiste Humbert Florentino García Martínez Norman Golb Jonas C. Greenfield Gerald Lankester Harding Yizhar Hirschfeld Ernest-Marie Laperrousaz Jodi Magness Józef Milik Bargil Pixner Elisha Qimron Lawrence Schiffman Solomon H. Steckoll Hartmut Stegemann John Strugnell Eleazar Sukenik Carsten Peter Thiede Emanuel Tov John C. Trever Eugene Ulrich Roland de Vaux Géza Vermes Yigael Yadin José O'Callaghan Martínez

Other	Shrine of the Book The Orion Center École Biblique Discoveries in the Judaean Desert Mar Samuel Muhammed edh-Dhib Najib Albina

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4Q240

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