4Q Pesher Nahum: A Critical Edition‪.‬

4Q Pesher Nahum: A Critical Edition, by Gregory L. Doudna. JSPSup 35. Copenhagen International Series 8. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2001. Pp. 813. $185.00. This book is a published version of the author's disputats that was submitted to the University of Copenhagen. Doudna's study should generate considerable controversy since it proposes that the mysterious "Lion of Wrath" in 4QpNah (4Q169) is a Nebuchadnezzar-like foreign invader who will deliver God's judgment on Israel and that the Dead Sea Scrolls were deposited in the caves surrounding Qumran in 40 B.C.E. It also contains the original text of the pesher that is based on the author's examination of the actual manuscript and all the available photographic evidence. Although this book is a critical edition of and commentary on 4QpNah, it is actually much more; it is a bold reconstruction of the history of the Qumran community.