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G — Biblically Based Apocryphal Works
Part 35
A fragmentary first-century BCE document preserves a partial list of netinim — the Temple servants whose genealogical rosters appear in Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah — confirming that such lineage records circulated actively in late Second Temple Judaism. Though too broken for continuous reading, the fragment names Ithra and Tobiah among those identified, and its survival alongside the Copper Scroll material situates it within the broader Qumran archival tradition of preserving covenant-community records tied to temple service and household lineage.
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A badly mutilated fragment, dated to the first half of the first century BCE, lists the Temple servants or netinim referred to in the biblical Books of Chronicles, Ezra and Nehemiah. The text is too broken to make good reading, but it proves that such lists were in circulation in late Second Temple times. For the editio princeps, see M. Broshi and A. Yardeni, DJD, XIX, 81-4.
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These are the netinim who have been identified by their names: Ithra and.. Tobiah.
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H. Miscellanea A cut segment from The Copper Scroll
