Evidence of Editing
Evidence of Editing

Author: Reinhard Müller

Publisher: Society of Biblical Lit

Published: 2014-01-23

Total Pages: 267

ISBN-13: 1589837487

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A new perspective on editorial activity in the Hebrew Bible for research and teaching Evidence of Editing lays out the case for substantial and frequent editorial activity within the Hebrew Bible. The authors show how editors omitted, expanded, rewrote, and compiled both smaller and larger phrases and passages to address religious and political change. The book refines the exegetical method of literary and redaction criticism, and its results have important consequences for the future use of the Hebrew Bible in historical and theological studies. Features: Hebrew, Greek, and Aramaic examples of editorial activity Clear explanations of the distinctions between textual, literary, and redaction criticism Fifteen chapters attesting to continual editorial activity in the Torah, the Prophets, and the Writings

Archaeology of the Books of Samuel
Archaeology of the Books of Samuel

Author: Philippe Hugo

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9004179577

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Considering the literary dimension of the earliest text history of Samuel, this volume asks the question if the comparative analysis of the textual witnesses permit proving the existence of distinct literary editions and identifying the ideological motives that governed the possible modification of the text.

Apocalypse, Prophecy, and Pseudepigraphy
Apocalypse, Prophecy, and Pseudepigraphy

Author: John J. Collins

Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Published: 2015-10-03

Total Pages: 399

ISBN-13: 1467443832

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A highly regarded expert on the Jewish apocalyptic tradition, John J. Collins has written extensively on the subject. Nineteen of his essays written over the last fifteen years, including previously unpublished contributions, are brought together for the first time in this volume. Its thematic essays organized in five sections, Apocalypse, Prophecy, and Pseudepigraphy complements and enriches Collins’s well-known book The Apocalyptic Imagination.

Moses among the Greek Lawgivers
Moses among the Greek Lawgivers

Author: Ursula Westwood

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2023-09-04

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 9004681930

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Josephus’ Antiquities introduces Moses as the Jewish lawgiver, adapting the biblical account for a new audience. But who was that audience, and what did they understand by the term lawgiver (νομοθέτης)? This book uses Plutarch’s Lives as a proxy for an imagined audience, providing a historically grounded but flexible model of a lawgiver, against which some of the otherwise invisible forces shaping Josephus’ choices are thrown into sharp relief. This method reveals patterns of appeal and challenge in Josephus’ intriguing and lively account of Moses’ legislative activities.

The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English
The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English

Author: Geza Vermes

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2012-06-26

Total Pages: 721

ISBN-13: 0141197315

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A newly updated edition of the landmark translation by one of our greatest religious scholars Since its publication in 1962, esteemed biblical expert Géza Vermes's translation of the Dead Sea Scrolls has established itself as the authoritative standard. The original manuscripts, discovered in the Judean Desert between 1947 and 1956, completely transformed our understanding of the Hebrew Bible, early Judaism, and the origin of Christianity. Now in its seventh edition, The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English has been updated with a number of previously unpublished texts, as well as extensive new introductory material and notes. Some sixty years after the Scrolls' discovery, this revised and expanded volume crowns a lifetime of research by Vermes. For more than sixty-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,500 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Studies on the Intersection of Text, Paratext, and Reception
Studies on the Intersection of Text, Paratext, and Reception

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Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-05-12

Total Pages: 442

ISBN-13: 900444646X

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Studies on the Intersection of Text, Paratext, and Reception brings together the latest research on how the fields of textual criticism, manuscript studies, and reception history can and should inform one another.