This classic introduction to textual criticism of the Hebrew Bible is now entirely updated in the light of new critical editions of the texts and recent contributions and findings in the various areas of history of the text-especially the Masoretic text, the Septuagint, the Peshitta, and the Dead Sea Scrolls-and of textual criticism. A new chapter discusses the significance of textual criticism and the history of the text, and a new appendix provides resources for textual research. Includes 439 black-and-white plates of texts and inscriptions.
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This review is from: The Text of the Old Testament: An Introduction to the Biblia Hebraica (Paperback)
This book is ostensibly an introduction to Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia, a standard work giving the text of the Hebrew Bible and a list of variants and plausible emendations. It serves that function superbly, but it is also one of the best books ever written on the textual criticism of the Hebrew Bible. It is well worth buying even if you do not have a Biblia Hebraica. Some may prefer Tov's book on the subject, but ideally you should have both.
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An Aid to Biblia Hebraica,
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Wurthwein first wrote this book to "meet a practical need," the need that many students of Biblia Hebraica Kittel did not understand the "wealth of material" in the critical apparatus(or apparati, if you prefer). This book incorporates the changes in the criticial apparatus of BH Stuttgartensia (but not later editions such as BH Quinta).
As one might expect, the siglia for the Masora Parva are explained. So are the siglia for the texts of the Dead Sea Scrolls whose textual witness is now being considered by scholars. Wurthwein goes on to consider the primary versions, the LXX, the Targums, the Syriac versions, and the Latin, Coptic, Ethiopic, Armenian, and Arabic versions. Wurthwein does not spend most of his book arguing for a particular theory of the origen of the Hebrew Bible such as Cross' theory of local texts. It is his purpose to introduce the tools and resources to the student of BHS. To this end he devotes over 40 pages of his short book to plates of sources (these are terrific) that many of us will never see. Instead Wurthwein presents the sources so that the student of textual theory may find his/her way for him/her-self.
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This review is from: The Text of the Old Testament: An Introduction to the Biblia Hebraica (Paperback)
Covers most important issues in textual criticism. If you only get one book on textual criticsm this is the one to get. Emmanuel Tov covers much more ground and is less dated, but it is much more expensive and more difficult to read. If you want both, definitely read Wurthwein first.
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Excavations and discoveries of the last hundred years have revealed an unexpected wealth of literacy activity in Palestine and Syria. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
square script, lower writing, consonantal text, patristic quotations, pointing system, photograph kindly, textual criticism, biblical manuscripts, vowel signs, vowel letters Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Old Testament, Old Hebrew, Old Latin, Minor Prophets, Ben Naphtali, British Library, New Testament, Samaritan Pentateuch, Palestinian Targum, Biblia Hebraica, Jacob ben Chayyim, Aleppo Codex, Bible Society, Church Fathers, Targum Onkelos, Greek Bible, Cairo Geniza, Rabbinic Bible, Targum Jonathan, Dead Sea, Joseph Ziegler, Near East, Peshitta Institute, Tiberian Masoretes, Abisha Scroll New!
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- Hebrew Bible-FL by BIBLE SOCIETY in Front Matter, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- An Introduction to Biblical Hebrew Syntax by Bruce K. Waltke in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Cairo Geniza (British Academy, London, Schweich Lectures on Biblical Archaeology Series 1930) by Paul E. Kahle on page 81, and Back Matter
- The Book of Joshua in Greek by Margolis on page 78, and Back Matter
- Text History of the Greek Numbers (Abhandlungen der Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Gottingen. Philologisch-Historische Klasse. Dritte Folge) (German Edition) by John William Wevers on page 78, and Back Matter
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- The Books of Nahum, Habakkuk, and Zephaniah (New International Commentary on the Old Testament) by O. Palmer Robertson on page 42, and page 49
- Hebrew Manuscripts of the Middle Ages by Colette Sirat on page 20, and Back Matter
- Writing on the Tablet of the Heart: Origins of Scripture and Literature by David M. Carr on page 5
- From Ancient Writings to Sacred Texts: The Old Testament and Apocrypha by S. A. Nigosian on page 261
- The Specter of Speciesism: Buddhist and Christian Views of Animals (American Academy of Religion Books) by Paul Waldau in Back Matter
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