The Textual History of the Bible from the Dead Sea Scrolls to the Biblical Manuscripts of the Vienna Papyrus Collection
The Textual History of the Bible from the Dead Sea Scrolls to the Biblical Manuscripts of the Vienna Papyrus Collection

Author: Ruth A. Clements

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2023-03-20

Total Pages: 696

ISBN-13: 9004511709

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Biblical manuscripts from the Dead Sea and the Cairo Genizah have added immeasurably to our knowledge of the textual history of the Hebrew Bible. The papers collected in this volume compare the evidence of the biblical DSS with manuscripts from the Vienna Papyrus Collection, connected with the Cairo Genizah, as well as late ancient evidence from diverse contexts. The resulting picture is one of a dialectic between textual plurality and fixity: the eventual dominance of the consonantal Masoretic Text over the textual plurality of the Second Temple period, and the secondary diversification of that standardized text through scribal activity.

The Dead Sea Scrolls at Seventy: “Clear a Path in the Wilderness!”
The Dead Sea Scrolls at Seventy: “Clear a Path in the Wilderness!”

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Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2024-10-31

Total Pages: 453

ISBN-13: 9004698078

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The Sixteenth Orion Symposium celebrated seventy years of Dead Sea Scrolls research under the theme, “Clear a path in the wilderness!” (Isaiah 40:3). Papers use the wilderness rubric to address the self-identification of the Qumran group; dimensions of religious experience reflected in the Dead Sea writings; biblical interpretation as shaper and conveyor of that experience; the significance of the Qumran texts for critical biblical scholarship; points of contact with the early Jesus movement; and new developments in understanding the archaeology of the Qumran caves. The volume both honors past insights and charts new paths for the future of Qumran studies.

Changes in Sacred Texts and Traditions
Changes in Sacred Texts and Traditions

Author: Martti Nissinen

Publisher: SBL Press

Published: 2024-04-26

Total Pages: 609

ISBN-13: 1628375736

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This volume presents the work of the international, interdisciplinary research project Changes in Sacred Texts and Traditions (CSTT), whose members focused on cultural, ideological, and material changes in the period when the sacred traditions of the Hebrew Bible were created, transmitted, and transformed. Specialists in the textual study of the Hebrew and Greek Bibles, archaeology, Assyriology, and history, working across their fields of expertise, trace how changes occurred in biblical and ancient Near Eastern texts and traditions. Contributors Tero Alstola, Anneli Aejmelaeus , Rick Bonnie, Francis Borchardt, George J. Brooke, Cynthia Edenburg, Sebastian Fink, Izaak J. deHulster , Patrik Jansson, Jutta Jokiranta, Tuukka Kauhanen, Gina Konstantopoulos, Lauri Laine, Michael C. Legaspi, Christoph Levin, Ville Mäkipelto, Reinhard Müller, Martti Nissinen, Jessi Orpana, Juha Pakkala, Dalit Rom-Shiloni, Christian Seppänen, Jason M. Silverman, Saana Svärd, Timo Tekoniemi, Hanna Tervanotko, Joanna Töyräänvuori, and Miika Tucker demonstrate that rigorous yet respectful debate results in a nuanced and complex understanding of how ancient texts developed.

Studies in Textual Criticism
Studies in Textual Criticism

Author: Emanuel Tov

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2024-02-06

Total Pages: 515

ISBN-13: 9004690026

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Twenty-eight rewritten and updated essays on the textual criticism of the Hebrew Bible, the Septuagint, and the Dead Sea Scrolls mainly published between 2019 and 2022 are presented in the fifth volume of the author's collected essays. They are joined by an unpublished study, an unpublished "reflection" on the development of text-critical research in 1970-2020 and the author's academic memoirs. All the topics included in this volume are at the forefront of textual research.

Behind the Scenes of the New Testament
Behind the Scenes of the New Testament

Author: Bruce W. Longenecker

Publisher: Baker Books

Published: 2024-11-05

Total Pages: 782

ISBN-13: 1493447661

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This authoritative volume brings together a team of world-class scholars to cover the full range of New Testament backgrounds studies in a concise, up-to-date, and comprehensive manner. Drawing on the expertise of specialists in the areas of archaeological, historical, and biblical studies, this book provides concise treatments of a wide breadth of topics related to the world of the early Christ followers. The book offers compact overviews of key historical issues, facilitating enriched understandings of the significance and force of the texts of the New Testament in their original contexts. Meant to be used alongside traditional literature-based canonical surveys, this one-stop introduction to New Testament backgrounds fills a gap in typical introduction to the Bible courses and is ideal for undergraduate or seminary classes. It is beautifully designed and includes photographs, line drawings, maps, charts, and tables, which will facilitate its use in the classroom.

Confronting Antisemitism from the Perspectives of Christianity, Islam, and Judaism
Confronting Antisemitism from the Perspectives of Christianity, Islam, and Judaism

Author: Armin Lange

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2020-10-26

Total Pages: 311

ISBN-13: 3110671883

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This volume engages with antisemitic stereotypes as religious symbols that express and transmit a belief system of Jew-hatred. These religious symbols are stored in Christian, Muslim and even today’s secular cultural and religious memories. This volume explores how antisemitic religious symbol systems can play a key role in the construction of group identities.

The Oxford Handbook of the Books of Kings
The Oxford Handbook of the Books of Kings

Author: Steven L. McKenzie

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2024

Total Pages: 625

ISBN-13: 0197610374

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The Oxford Handbook of the Books of Kings provide a clear and useful introduction to the main aspects and issues pertaining to the scholarly study of Kings. These include textual history (including the linguistic profile), compositional history, literary approaches, key characters, history, important recurring themes, reception history and some contemporary readings.

The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Origins of the Bible
The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Origins of the Bible

Author: Eugene Ulrich

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2023-07-03

Total Pages: 327

ISBN-13: 9004677135

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In this important collection of studies, copublished by Eerdmans and Brill, one of the world's foremost experts on the Dead Sea Scrolls outlines a comprehensive theory that reconstructs the complex development of the ancient texts that eventually came to form the Old Testament.

Two Books of Ezekiel
Two Books of Ezekiel

Author: Ingrd A. Lilly

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2012-06-22

Total Pages: 390

ISBN-13: 9004206744

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Employing text-critical, literary, and codicological analysis, this book shows the significance of Papyrus 967 for understanding the book of Ezekiel's textual transmission and status as a variant literary edition.

The Text of the Hebrew Bible and Its Editions
The Text of the Hebrew Bible and Its Editions

Author: Andrés Piquer Otero

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2016-11-01

Total Pages: 595

ISBN-13: 9004335021

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In The Text of the Hebrew Bible and its Editions some of the top world scholars and editors of the Hebrew Bible and its versions present essays on the aims, method, and problems of editing the biblical text(s), taking as a reference the Complutensian Polyglot, first modern edition of the Hebrew text and its versions and whose Fifth Centennial was celebrated in 2014. The main parts of the volume discuss models of editions from the Renaissance and its forerunners to the Digital Age, the challenges offered by the different textual traditions, particular editorial problems of the individual books of the Bible, and the role played by quotations. It thus sets a landmark in the future of biblical editions.