Damascus Document · Qumran witness · 4Q271 · Dᶠ
One Qumran witness; Cairo copies and other Qumran fragments have separate records.
Record reviewed 2026-11-05 ·
- Catalogue reference
- 4Q271 · Dᶠ
- Institution / route
- Israel Antiquities Authority · confirmation requested
- Region / collection context
- Judaean Desert
- Language
- Hebrew
- Physical form
- Scroll fragments
- Translation evidence
- English edition located
- Access route
- Public archive route
Open the institutional record
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What the record covers
The reviewed register does not yet map every plate, fragment, column and line to an edition.
Edition and translation
Library of Congress displayed lines 4–7 checked, transcription and translation J. Baumgarten. Later DJD fragment/column concordance and full edition access remain pending.
The open research question
Obtain the exact image-to-DJD concordance and identify any surviving passage still lacking a located translation.
Image and publication rights
Institution-hosted reading route. No image redistribution or new translation licence recorded for Babylon.
Dates and historical context
No numeric date has been assigned in this catalogue. A title, an ancient attribution or an older catalogue entry is insufficient to fix a date for the physical witness.
Dates for a copy or material do not automatically establish the date of composition, the events narrated, or a symbolic cycle.
Carry the reading into Babylon
Begin with the surviving words and the edition’s own uncertainty. Then explore Babylon’s named teaching with the Father and Yeshua at its devotional centre. Every reader keeps their dignity, judgement and freedom to question.
Related witnesses and routes
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Learning in the Light
In Babylon, the Father’s light opens perspective, learning and a chosen next step. Your worth remains intact. Every person is sovereign, with dignity, freedom and room to grow.
Read the learning principle ↗Passage and translation coverage
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Passage and translation coverage ↗Read the selected passage study
Library of Congress exhibition fragment · displayed lines 4–7 · Institutional translation excerpt checked
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Library of Congress exhibition fragment · displayed lines 1–3 · Fragmentary English excerpt checked
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