11Q Psalms Scroll Additional Psalms

The Additional Psalms of the Great Psalms Scroll — Witness Note

[Witness note. It records the non-canonical compositions in the Great Psalms Scroll and where each is restored, so none is lost and none is restored twice.]

The Great Psalms Scroll from Qumran arranges the psalms in an order of its own, and includes among them several compositions beyond the canonical hundred and fifty. These additional compositions are restored at their homes as follows:

Psalm 151 — restored under Psalm 151.

Psalm 154 and Psalm 155 — restored under Psalms 152–155.

The Apostrophe to Zion — restored under its own number.

The Plea for Deliverance — restored under its own number.

The Hymn to the Creator — restored under its own number.

The prose notice of the Compositions of David — restored under its own number.

In addition, the scroll contains an acrostic poem in praise of wisdom which also appears at the end of the book of Sirach, and a piece corresponding to the last words of David. These are noted here and restored with their parent works rather than duplicated.

Thus the whole non-canonical content of the Great Psalms Scroll is accounted for: each composition is restored once, at its strongest home, and gathered here as a single witness to what the scroll preserved.