The Dead Sea Scrolls on Miriam’s Song

According to Exodus 15:20–21, after the Israelites miraculously crossed the sea, escaping the Egyptians, Moses’ sister Miriam led the women in song. However, the biblical text provides just a single verse of Miriam’s song, in contrast to the eighteen verses of the song led by Moses. A fragmentary parabiblical text from the Dead Sea Scrolls called Reworked Pentateuch presents what seems to be a longer version of her song. (The song appears in Reworked Pentateuch^c, the third Reworked Pentateuch manuscript found among the Dead Sea Scrolls at Qumran.)