The Hodayot (Thanksgiving Psalms)

1QHodayota is recognized as one of the most important of the Dead Sea Scrolls and key to understanding the specific worldview and piety of the Qumran community. It contains a collection of psalms giving thanks for deliverance salvation knowledge and divine mercy. This volume contains the text of the reconstructed scroll of 1QHodayota published in Discoveries in the Judaean Desert volume 40 and the English translation from that volume lightly revised. It provides the most up-to-date accessible and inexpensive access to the text translation and official numbering of the columns and lines of 1QHa.