OBSERVATIONS ON THE EDITORIAL SHAPING OF THE SO-CALLED COMMUNITY HYMNS FROM 1QH a AND 4QH a (4Q427) ANGELA KIM HARKINS Duquesne University One of the first scrolls to be unrolled by Eliezer Sukenik was the Hodayot scroll from Cave 1 in 1947. 1 Since then, the Hodayot have been identified in at least seven other manuscripts of varying states of decay. 2 The most complete example of this collection remains the large scroll from Cave 1 which is well-known for the complexity of its reconstruction from many sheets and many fragments. 3 1QH a is thought 1 E.L. Sukenik, The Dead Sea Scrolls of the Hebrew University (prepared for the press by N. Avigad; Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 1954 [Hebr]; 1955 [Eng.]) hereafter DSSHU. 2 Two fragments of what is considered by many to be the second copy of the Hodayot from Cave 1 (1Q35) were first identified as Hodayot texts by J.T. Milik in Qumran Cave I (DJD 1; Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1955) 136, pl. 35 and later identified correctly as a second copy of the Hodayot scroll and renamed as 1QH b by Stegemann in his unpublished dissertation “Rekonstruktion der Hodajot. Ursprüngliche Gestalt und kritisch bearbeiteter Text der Hymnenrolle aus Höhle 1 von Qumran,” (University of Heidelberg Ph.D. Dissertation: Heidelberg, 1963) and mentioned briefly by H.-W. Kuhn in Enderwartung und gegenwärtiges Heil. Untersuchungen zu den Gemeindeliedern von Qumran, mit einem Anhang über Eschatologie und Gegenwart in der Verkündigung Jesu (SUNT 4; Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1966) 17 n. 1. Note E. Schuller’s account of this in “The Cave 4 Hodayot Manuscripts: A Preliminary Description,” JQR 85 (1994) 137 n. 4, where she notes that Strugnell recognized this as well but never published his observation [= Qumranstudien. Vorträge und Beiträge der Teilnehmer des Qumranseminars auf dem internationalen Treffen der Society of Biblical Literature, Münster, 25.–26. Juli 1993 (eds H.-J. Fabry, A. Lange, H. Lichtenberger; Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1996) 87–100]. See also the discussion by Émile Puech in “Quelques aspects de la restauration du Rouleau des Hymns (1QH),” JJS 39 (1988) 39-40. Since Milik’s identification of 1Q35, at least six other Cave 4 manu- scripts have been identified as copies of the Hodayot. These Cave 4 fragments were identi fied by J. Strugnell in “Le travail d’édition des fragments manuscrits de Qumrân,” RB 63 (1956) 64, but edited many years later by E. Schuller in Qumran Cave 4.XX. Poetical and Liturgical Texts, Part 2 (eds E.G. Chazon et al., in consulta- tion with J. VanderKam and M. Brady; DJD 29; Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999) 69–232, with pls IV–XIV. 3 Many important fragment placements were made by Stegemann in “Rekonstruktion © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2005 Dead Sea Discoveries 12, 3 Also available online – www.brill.nl