Two books of Ezekiel : Papyrus 967 and the Masoretic text as variant literary editions / by Ingrid E. Lilly.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lilly, Ingrid E.

Series:

Supplements to Vetus Testamentum ; v. 150.

Supplements to Vetus Testamentum

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible. Ezekiel--Criticism, Textual.

Bible.

Papyrus 967.

Bible. Ezekiel--Greek--Versions--Papyrus 967.

Bible. Ezekiel.

Criticism, Textual.

Physical Description:

xix, 369 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.

Summary:

A practitioner of textual criticism, Lilly (religious studies, Western Kentucky U.) examines the Greek manuscript of Ezekiel, first published in the late 1930s and now known as p967, as a functioning version of the Old Testament book. It is dated to the late second or early third century CE, she says, making it the earliest copy of any Septuagintal codex known at the time. She argues that it is a mechanically transmitted witness to an earlier Old Greek text of Ezekiel, is a variant literary edition from the Hebrew Masoretic version with unique features that can shed crucial light on Ezekiel's editorial history, and represents a text produced under specific conditions that might interest historians of the period. The study served as her 2010 doctoral dissertation in the Hebrew Bible at Emory University. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Notes:

Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Emory University.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [337]-351) and indexes.

ISBN:

9789004206748

9004206744

OCLC:

779530015