C — Calendars, Liturgies and Prayers

Order of Divine Office (4Q334)

1Cave 4 has yielded seven fragments of a liturgical work made up of six columns, listing the number of songs and words of praise to be sung during the night and during the day on consecutive days of the month. Only frs. 2-4 can be built up into a coherent text. The script is dated to the end of the first century BCE. For the editio princeps, see U. Glessmer, DJD, XXI, 167-94. Frs. 2-4 [And on the eighth (day) of it (of the month) at night: e]ight [so]ngs and forty-... [w]ords of prai[se, and during the day: ... songs and] sixtee[n wor]ds [of praise. And on the nint]h (day) of it at night: [eight songs and] fort[y-t]wo [words of praise, and during the d]ay: ... songs [and ... words of praise]. And on the tenth (day) of i[t] at night: eight songs [and ... words of praise, and during the day: ... songs] and twenty words of p[raise] ...