Further Psalms from Elephantine and Qumran - 𐤏𐤅𐤃 𐤌𐤆𐤌𐤅𐤓𐤉𐤌

quasi-biblical texts not forming part of any traditional canon

Psalms found in the same manuscripts as canonical Psalms

Version	Modern or critical edition	Selected manuscript/s
Psalms from Elephantine, Egypt - in Israelite Aramaic (demotic script) -- (SHOW/HIDE)
"Second Psalm" from Elephantine, Egypt: "Celebrating the New Year" or "Adonai's Wedding Banquet"	"שמעני אלהי" [pp: 1-2] transcribed to Aramaic-Hebrew script from the academic transcriptions Steiner/Nims transcription [pp. 46-48] (מקור: "The Aramaic Text in Demotic Script: Text, Translation, and Notes") van der Toorn transcription [doc. p. 6] (מקור:" Celebrating the New Year with the Israelites")	Papyrus Amherst 63 (3rd c. BCE): fragment 5 and fragment 6. [Column XII (divided between leftmost column of f.5 and rightmost of f.6, recto), lines 1-10]
"Third Psalm" from Elephantine, Egypt: "The Council of Heaven Proclaims Yaho's Kingship" or "A Prayer to Adonai"	"מן באלהן באדם יהוה" [p: 2] transcribed to Aramaic-Hebrew script from the academic transcriptions Steiner/Nims transcription [pp. 48-50] (מקור: "The Aramaic Text in Demotic Script: Text, Translation, and Notes") van der Toorn transcription [doc. p. 11] (מקור:" Celebrating the New Year with the Israelites")	Papyrus Amherst 63 (3rd c. BCE): fragment 5 and fragment 6. [Column XII (divided between leftmost column of f.5 and rightmost of f.6, recto), lines 11-17]
Psalms in the Dead Sea Scrolls from Qumran - in Hebrew -- (SHOW/HIDE)
David’s Compositions prose appendix ascribing divinely inspired authorship to the Psalms	חיבורי דוד מקור: מאגרים pp. 193-194 in "Parallel Manuscripts: Psalms" pp. 67-68 in "11Q5 Psalms-a (11QPsalms-a)" מקור: הדרך ליהוה	Great Psalms Scroll (11Q5): Column XXVII
Plea for Deliverance	תחינה לגאולה מקור: מאגרים pp. 197-201 in "Parallel Manuscripts: Psalms" pp. 59-61 in "11Q5 Psalms-a"; p. 6 in "11Q6 Psalms-b" מקור: הדרך ליהוה	Great Psalms Scroll (11Q5): Column XIX, 11Q6 / 11QPsalms-b: "fragment 4", "fragment 5".
Apostrophe to Zion	מזמור לציון מקור: מאגרים pp. 189-192 in "Parallel Manuscripts: Psalms" pp. 62-63 in "11Q5 Psalms-a"; p. 7 in "11Q6 Psalms-b"; pp. 12-14 in "4Q88 Psalms-f" מקור: הדרך ליהוה	Great Psalms Scroll (11Q5): Column XXII (third column in this fragment.) See same fragment in infrared. 11Q6 / 11QPsalms-b "fragment 6" 4Q88 / 4QPsalms-f: column 7, column 8
Hymn to the Creator	המנון לבורא מקור: מאגרים pp. 196-197 in "Parallel Manuscripts: Psalms" p. 67 in "11Q5 Psalms-a (11QPsalms-a)" מקור: הדרך ליהוה	Great Psalms Scroll (11Q5): Column XXVI
Eschatological Hymn	מזמור גאולה מקור: מאגרים pp. 194-196 in "Parallel Manuscripts: Psalms" p. 14 in "4Q88 Psalms-f" מקור: הדרך ליהוה	4Q88 / 4QPsalms-f, column 9: first fragment, second fragment.
Apostrophe to Judah	תפילה ליהודה מקור: מאגרים pp. 188-189 in "Parallel Manuscripts: Psalms" p. 15 in "4Q88 Psalms-f" מקור: הדרך ליהוה	4Q88 / 4QPsalms-f: column 10
Unidentified fragmentary psalms included alongside a paraphrase of Psalm 91 in ms. 11Q11	DSS 11Q11 transcription מקור: מאגרים pp. 3-8 in "11Q11 Psalms" מקור: הדרך ליהוה	11Q11 / 11Q Apocryphal Psalms

Texts academically identified as psalms, but not found in the same manuscripts as canonical Psalms

Version	Modern or critical edition	Selected manuscript/s
Psalms in the Dead Sea Scrolls (from Qumran and Masada) - in Hebrew -- (SHOW/HIDE)
Hymn to King Jonathan found alongside a paraphrase of deuterocanonical Psalm 154	תפילה לשלום יונתן המלך מקור: חנן ואסתר אשל	4Q488 / 4Q Apocryphal Psalm and Prayer
Barkhi Nafshi hymns "following the model of the biblical Psalms"	מגילת ברכי נפשי מקור: מאגרים	4Q434-438 / 4Q Barkhi Nafshi
Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice or Angelic Liturgy identified as "non-canonical psalms"	מגילת שירי עולת שבת מקור: מאגרים	4Q400 / 4Q Non-Canonical Psalms; 4Q401-407 / 4Q Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice (b-h); 11Q17 / 11Q S.S.S.; Masada S.S.S.
Thanksgiving Hymns or Hodayot also called the "Thanksgiving Psalms"	מגילת ההודיות מקור: מאגרים additional transcription מקור: Eileen M. Schuller and Carol A. Newsom	Hodayot Scroll (1QH-a) [only partially digitised], all other Dead Sea Scrolls Hodayot fragments including some "Hodayot-like texts" not found in the main collection
Further untitled "Non-Canonical Psalms"	"שירי אישים מקראיים" מקור: מאגרים	4Q380 / 4Q Non-Canonical Psalms A, 4Q381 / 4Q Non-Canonical Psalms B

Other hymnic material from the Dead Sea Scrolls and Elephantine

Version	Modern or critical edition	Selected manuscript/s
Hymnic material from Elephantine, Egypt: the rest of Papyrus Amherst 63 - in Israelite Aramaic (demotic script)	Papyrus Amherst 63, academic transcription (with translation.) Source: Steiner and Nims	Papyrus Amherst 63 (3rd c. BCE): fragment 1, fragment 2, fragment 3, fragment 4, fragment 5, fragment 6
Hymnic/poetic material among the Dead Sea Scrolls - in Hebrew	for example: מגילת הללויה (4Q456), שיר למשכיל לבהל רוחות (4Q510/511), מגילת גבורות אל ב (4Q457 / 4Q Eschatological Hymn), מגילת הודיה (4Q442), "Hymn" (3Q6) מקור: מאגרים	All Dead Sea Scrolls "Poetical/Liturgical texts" (includes those works to which transcriptions are linked here, alongside many others)

Significantly related biblical texts:

Psalms which are canonical in any tradition:

• Psalms 1-150
• Psalm 151
• Psalms 152-155
• Psalms of Solomon

Additional biblical texts included in the Great Psalms Scroll (11Q5):

• Sirach 51:13-23, 30
• II Samuel 23:7

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