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Twenty-eight revised and updated essays on the textual criticism of the Hebrew Bible, the Torah, the (proto-) Masoretic Text, the Septuagint, and the Dead Sea Scrolls originally published between 2010 and 2018 are presented in this fourth volume of the author’s collected essays. These areas have all developed much in modern research, and the author, the past editor-in-chief of the international Dead Sea Scrolls publication project, has been a major speaker in all of them. The topics presented in this volume display some of his emerging interests (the text of the Torah and the proto-MT), including central studies on the development of the text of the Torah, the enigma of the MT, and the Scripture text of the tefillin.

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Author:   Emanuel Tov
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   181
Weight:   0.962kg
ISBN:  

9789004406049

ISBN 10:   9004406042
Pages:   496
Publication Date:   25 October 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

Preface Sources Abbreviations and Sources Part 1 Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible 1 The Textual Base of the Biblical Quotations in Second Temple Compositions 2 Were Early Hebrew Scripture Texts Authoritative? 3 Post-Modern Textual Criticism? 4 The Origins, Development, and Characteristics of the Ancient Translations of the Hebrew Scriptures 5 Modern Editions of the Hebrew Bible 6 Electronic Scripture Editions (With an Appendix Listing Electronic Editions on the Internet [2019]) 7 New Editions of the Hebrew Scriptures: A Response Part 2 Textual Criticism of the Torah 8 Textual History of the Torah 9 Textual Harmonization in Exodus 1–24 10 The Septuagint of Numbers as a Harmonizing Text 11 Textual Harmonization in the Five Books of the Torah: A Summary Part 3 The (Proto-)Masoretic Text 12 ‘Proto-Masoretic,’ ‘Pre-Masoretic,’ ‘Semi-Masoretic,’ and ‘Masoretic’: A Study in Terminology and Textual Theory 13 The Enigma of the Masoretic Text 14 The Development of the Text of the Torah in Two Major Text Blocks 15 The Source of Source Criticism: The Relevance of Non-Masoretic Textual Witnesses 16 The Socio-Religious Setting of the (Proto-)Masoretic Text 17 Ketiv/Qere Readings in Parallel Texts Part 4 The Septuagint 18 The Septuagint: Summary and Update 19 The Septuagint Translation of the Torah as a Source and Resource for the Post-Pentateuchal Translators 20 The Shared Tradition of the Septuagint and the Samaritan Pentateuch 21 Moses in the Septuagint 22 The Septuagint in Codex Sinaiticus Compared with Other Sources 23 Assyria in the Septuagint 24 Transliterated Proper Nouns in the Septuagint: Some Statistics Part 5 The Dead Sea Scrolls 25 The Tefillin from the Judean Desert and the Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible 26 Scribal Characteristics of the Qumran Scrolls 27 Scribal Practices and Approaches Revisited 28 An Early Leviticus Scroll from En-Gedi: Preliminary Publication  Emanuel TovMichael SegalWilliam Brent SealesClifford Seth ParkerPnina ShorYosef Porath Index of Ancient Sources Index of Authors

Reviews

It is not possible to do justice to this part of the oeuvre (or any part, for that matter) of Emanuel Tov in the space of a few pages. He is an extremely productive scholar and to a large extent incomparable. Here he deals with textual criticism, the Septuagint, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the MT. In this collection he demonstrates that he is a true academic. He ventures to formulate new points of view, but he is never shy to challenge the views of others, nor is he touchy about critiques of his views. In the chapter Scribal Practices and Approaches Revisited he takes note of criticism of his view on scribal practices and acknowledges that criticism benefitted my scholarship. This collection and the others mentioned above are recommended to all serious scholars of textual criticism. Johann Cook, University of Stellenbosch in Review of Biblical Literature

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Emanuel Tov, Ph.D. (1974), Hebrew University, Jerusalem is J.L. Magnes Professor of Bible emeritus at that University. He has published many monographs on the textual criticism of the Hebrew Bible and Qumran, and was the editor-in-chief of the Dead Sea Scrolls publication project.

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