Clarifications Concerning 4Q285 and 11Q14 Arising From Discoveries in the Judean Desert 23

This article arises from the section in Discoveries in the Judean Desert 231 devoted to IlQ14 and co-authored by F. Garcla Martinez and A.S. van der Woude.3 In what follows, an attempt will be made to clarify two of their suggestions: (a) that 4Q285 5 is to be found in the extant lQ14 material, allowing a more informed interpretation of the narrative's sequence; and (b) that there may be a textual variant between the two blessings-previously thought to be identical-found in these texts. Before considering these suggestions in detail, however, a preliminary problem requires comment; namely, that of the confusion which may be caused by the re-naming of Qumran texts. When llQ14 was first published by van der Woude in 1968, he named it 1 lQBer,3 and this designation was generally accepted, even by Garcla Martinez.4 Although 4Q285 was initially known as 4QBerakhot-Milhamah (BM) in the preliminary concordance, it was renamed 4QSerekh ha-Milhamah by J.T. Milik in 1972,1 and this also has gained general acceptance.6 In contrast to his use of I lQBer, however, Garcia Martinez has always