The Text of the Hebrew Bible: From the Rabbis to Masoretes by Elvira Martín-Contreras, Lorena Miralles-Maciá

By Elvira Martín-Contreras, Lorena Miralles-Maciá

This ebook goals to open up the dialogue and examine of the in the past unstudied interval of the historical past of the Hebrew Bible textual content: the interval from the obvious stabilization of the Hebrew biblical textual content till the standardization that's mirrored within the manuscripts of biblical textual content, these together with the Masorah (c. second - ninth centuries A.D.). What happened from the time of the standardization of the consonantic textual content of the Hebrew Bible until eventually the looks of the 1st Masoretic codices? How was once the biblical textual content preserved meanwhile? How was once the physique of notes that makes up the Masorah shaped? How can the variety of the textual traditions inside the Masorah be defined and be in line with the assumption of a textual content demonstrated and standardized centuries ahead of?

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D. JosØ María Casciaro (Pamplona: EUNSA, 1994), 119 – 125. For an analysis, see E. Tov, “The Textual Base of the Corrections in the Biblical Texts Found at Qumran,” in D. Dimant and U. ), The Dead Sea Scrolls: Forty Years of Research (Leiden/New York/Cologne/Jerusalem: Brill/Magnes Press/Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi, 1992), 299 – 314, esp. 307 – 308. 25 BarthØlemy, ÉzØchiel, cxiii. This assumption is unlikely because the level of disagreement between 1QIsab and MurIsa on the one hand and the medieval MTon the other is much higher than the details in which the former had presumably been corrected.

4 This is the position that is argued in great detail in R. Pfeiffer, History of Classical Scholarship from the Beginning to the End of the Hellenistic Age (Oxford: Clarendon, 1968). See, in particular, Pt. 2, chs 2, 5 and 6. © 2014, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co. KG, Göttingen ISBN Print: 9783525550649 — ISBN E-Book: 9783647550640 Did the Sopherim Create a Standard Edition of the Hebrew Scriptures? 49 The Sopherim and the Homeric Scholars of Alexandria I will not address the “higher criticism” aspect of this Überlieferungsgeschichte.

Kahle, “Der Konsonantentext,” in H. Bauer and P. , Hildesheim: Olms, 1965), 73 – 81, esp. ” 2 B. S. Childs, Introduction to the Old Testament as Scripture (Philadelphia/London: Fortress Press/SCM Press, 1979), 103 – 106. 3 B. J. Roberts, The Old Testament Text and Versions: The Hebrew Text in Transmission and the History of the Ancient Versions (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1951), 29. 4 A. Lange, “‘They Confirmed the Reading’ (y. Ta an. 4:68a): The Textual Standardization of Jewish Scriptures in the Second Temple Period,” in A.

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