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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.
Price: $192.00
Pages: 496
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Vetus Testamentum, Supplements
Publication Date:
25 October 2019
ISBN: 9789004406049
Format: Other
"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
Three notable features catch the collection’s importance. First, the volume is dedicated ‘to the anonymous scribes and translators who … considered it their task and their right to alter the text considerably in early centuries and subsequently to make small changes, leaving many riddles for the scholar’ (p. x). Second, some items are landmark summary pieces from reference works, notably The New Cambridge History of the Bible and the Textual History of the Bible. The book thus gives easy access to the insights derived from a long and very active academic career. Third, several of the studies reprint essays from Festschriften and conference volumes which are not always easily accessible. A must for reference libraries. George J. Brooke, SOTS Review
Johann Cook, University of Stellenbosch in Review of Biblical Literature
Three notable features catch the collection’s importance. First, the volume is dedicated ‘to the anonymous scribes and translators who … considered it their task and their right to alter the text considerably in early centuries and subsequently to make small changes, leaving many riddles for the scholar’ (p. x). Second, some items are landmark summary pieces from reference works, notably The New Cambridge History of the Bible and the Textual History of the Bible. The book thus gives easy access to the insights derived from a long and very active academic career. Third, several of the studies reprint essays from Festschriften and conference volumes which are not always easily accessible. A must for reference libraries. George J. Brooke, SOTS Review
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.