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4Q369, also known as the Prayer of Enosh, is one of the Dead Sea Scrolls found at Qumran Cave 4. The text was published in 1994 by editors Harold Attridge and John Strugnell as part of the DJD-series.

Content

The proposal of the editors of DJD-13 was that the text contains prayers and prophecies attributed to Enosh, the father of Kenan, and Enoch, a biblical figure.

Academic debate

James Kugel argued that the identity of the speaker is "far from clear" and that the text be conceptualized as a "prayer concerning God and Israel". Justin Pannkuk, on the other hand, supported the proposal of the editors, in a form-critical analysis, that attributed the prayers to Enosh. Vasile Babota referred to 4Q369 Prayer of Enosh as a parabiblical text but observed that it had little overlap with biblical texts, and perhaps should be re-classified.

See also

• Dead Sea Scrolls

References

1. McNamara, Martin. Book review: Discoveries in the Judaean Desert, Volume XIII, Qumran Cave 4: viii, Parabiblical Texts, Part I. Edited by Harold Attridge et al. HeyJ XXXVIII (1997), pp. 315–317
2. Endres, John C. (1997). "Review of Qumran Cave 4. Volume 8, Parabiblical Texts. Part 1 (DJD 13)". The Catholic Biblical Quarterly. 59 (2): 333–335. ISSN 0008-7912.
3. Discoveries in the Judaean Desert, volume 13: H. Attridge and others, in consultation with J. VanderKam (1994). Qumran Cave 4.VIII: Parabiblical Texts, Part 1. Oxford: Clarendon Press. (x + 470 pp. + xliii plates.)
4. ^ Kugel, James. 4Q369 "Prayer of Enosh" and Ancient Biblical Interpretation. Dead Sea Discoveries, Jul., 1998, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 119-148
5. ^ Pannkuk, Justin L. Prayers of the Antediluvian Patriarchs: Revisiting the Form and Function of 4Q369 Prayer of Enosh. Dead Sea Discoveries, Vol. 24, No. 1 (2017), pp. 38-58
6. ^ Babota, Vasile. The Parabiblical Texts. From Biblical Texts to Pesharim. Henoch, 39 (1/2017)

• Dead Sea Scrolls
• 1st-century BC biblical manuscripts