Recent Scholarship on the Hodayot 1993–20101

The Hodayot are a collection of poetic compositions of praise and thanksgiving that first became known with the discovery of the manuscripts in the caves of Qumran. These texts are preserved in eight copies, two found in cave l (1QH a , 1QH b ) and six found in cave 4 (4QH a-e , 4QpapH f , 4Q427-432). This collection is reckoned, along with compositions such as the Rule of the Community, the War Scroll and the Pesharim, as one of the core …