Chapter 5 The Textualization of Priestly Ritual in Light of Hittite Sources

Abstract

Imagine the cover-up of the century. What if yet another cave had been discovered in Qumran, but its contents were so startling that they were never revealed to the public? What if, in this cave, was found the genizah of the Priestly school, containing the discarded rough drafts of ritual texts which ultimately were included – in a much more polished form – in the Priestly materials of the Pentateuch? What would be the implications of such a discovery?