Jacobus - Noah’s Flood Calendar (Gen 7:10-8:19) in the Septuagint 283 Hen 36(2/2014) Articles / Articoli NoaH’s Flood CaleNdar (GeN 7:10-8:19) iN tHe septuaGiNt Helen R. Jacobus, University College London 1. Introduction this presentation focuses on the septuagint Flood chronology in Genesis 7:10-8:19 and puts forward the hypothesis that the version of the deluge chronology in the septuagint is not a secondary reading caused by multiple text-critical accidental variants in a Hebrew base Vorlage, but that it speci- fically describes a different calendar to that in the corresponding passage in the proto Masoretic and samaritan texts, the Book of Jubilees (Jub. 5:20- 6:1), and that of the Qumran deluge chronology data in 4QCommentary on Genesis A (4Q252) fragment 1, col i line 3b - col ii and 4QCommentary on Genesis A (4Q254a) fragment 3, lines 1-2. the idea that calendars are described in the Noah Flood chronology in the Hebrew Bible and second temple witnesses is not new; 1 however, the * i thank Kristin de troyer for accepting this presentation in the septuagint studies program unit at isBl, in Vienna, July 6-10, 2014 and the participants in the session for their feedback. this article is an extension and expansion of the septuagint element in, Helen r. Jacobus, “Flood Calendars and Birds of the ark in the dead sea scrolls (4Q252 and 4Q254a), septuagint, and ancient Near east texts,” in Jason M. silverman (ed.), Opening Heaven’s Floodgates: The Genesis Flood Narrative, Its Context, and Reception (Biblical intersections 12; piscataway: Gorgias, 2013), pp. 85-112. another chapter by H. r. Jacobus on the biblical and Qumran flood calendars is forthcoming in the second memorial volume to annie Jaubert, “an analysis of Noah’s Calendar traditions in 4QCommentary a and (4Q252) and the septuagint,” in Basil lourié et al (eds.), A View from a Bridge (forthcoming). 1 see, J.t.a.G.M. van ruiten, Primaeval History Interpreted: The Writing of Genesis 1-11 in the Book of Jubilees (leiden: Brill, 2000), pp. 210-211; a. Jaubert, “le calendrier des Jubilés et de la secte de Qumrân. ses origins bibliques,” Vetus Testamentum 3 (1953), pp. 250-264; ead., “le calendrier des Jubilés et les jours liturguques de la semaine,” Vetus Testamentum 7 (1957), pp. 35-61; t.H. lim, “the Chronology of the Flood story in a Qumran text (4Q252),” Journal of Semitic Studies 43 (1992), pp. 288-298; M. Bernstein, “Noah and the Flood at Qumran,” in d.e. parry - e. ulrich (eds.), The Provo International Conference on the Dead Sea Scrolls (stdJ 30; leiden: Brill, 1996), pp. 199-231; id., “From re-Written Bible to Biblical Commentary,” Journal of Jewish Studies 45 (1994), pp. 1-27; F. García Martínez, “interpretations of the Flood in the dead sea scrolls,” in F. García Martínez - G. p. luttikhuisen (eds.), Interpretations of the Flood (leiden: Brill, 1999), pp. 86-108 (esp. pp. 99-109, see bibliography, p.100 n 36 and n. 37); G.J. Brooke, “the Genre of 4Q252: From poetry to pesher,” Dead Sea Discoveries 1.2 (1994), pp. 160-179; id.,“the thematic Content of 4Q252,” Jewish Quarterly Review 85 (1994), pp. 33-59 (esp. pp. 33-41).