Expanding Ezekiel : the hermeneutics of scribal addition in the ancient text witnesses of the book of Ezekiel / Timothy P. Mackie.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mackie, Timothy P., author.

Series:

Forschungen zur Religion und Literatur des Alten und Neuen Testaments ; volume 257.

Forschungen zur Religion und Literatur des Alten und Neuen Testaments ; volume 257

V&R Academic

Language:

English

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Bible. Ezekiel--Hermeneutics.

Bible.

Bible. Ezekiel.

Scribes.

Hermeneutics.

Physical Description:

339 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Göttingen : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, [2015].

Language Note:

Includes quotations in Hebrew.

Summary:

Timothy P. Mackie focuses on the quantitative differences between the Greek and Hebrew text witnesses of the book of Ezekiel and explores the interrelationships between the production, transmission, and interpretation of scriptural scrolls by Jewish scribes during the late Second Temple period. A comparison of the Hebrew Masoretic text and Greek Septuagint versions of Ezekiel provides a large body of evidence for the phenomenon of "scribal expansion," instances where scribes added words and phrases into the body of the text. The scribal expansions in Ezekiel provide a glimpse into the intersection of scriptural interpretation, scribal production, and the transmission of these texts. Mackie's conclusions are relevant not only for text-critical scholarship on the Hebrew Bible, but also for research on the early history of Jewish scriptural exegesis and scribal culture. Book jacket.

Contents:

I Introduction: The Aims and Outline of This Study 13

II Identifying Scribal Expansion: The Text of Ezekiel in the MT and OG 16

1 Quantitative Differences between MT and OG Ezekiel: The Context of the Current Discussion 16

2 The OG as a textual Witness-Current Perspectives 28

2.1 The Translation Character of OG Ezekiel 32

2.2 Word-Level Variants and Quantitative Variants 38

3 The Original Text of OG Ezekiel 40

3.1 The Textual History and Main Witnesses to OG Ezekiel 40

3.2 Multiple Translator Theories 41

4 The Index of Quantitative Differences: Criteria for Identifying Scribal Expansion 43

4.1 Quantitative Divergences Not Included in the Index 44

4.2 Alignment of Textual Witnesses (B-Text: B, 967) 45

4.3 Translation Technique Criteria 45

4.4 Text-Critical Criteria 46

4.5 Literary-Critical Criteria 47

5 Conclusion 49

III Categorizing Scribal Expansion: A Descriptive Typology of Textual Expansions 50

1 Clarifying the Typology and Terminology 50

1.1 Glosses, Expansions, or Additions? 50

2 A Descriptive Typology of Scribal Expansions 53

2.1 The Purpose of Scribal Expansion 53

2.2 The Source of Scribal Expansions 67

2.3 Conclusion - A Bi-Level Analysis 69

IV Expansions That Focus on the Immediate Co-Text: Explicitation and Elaboration 71

1 Scribal Explicitation 72

1.1 Clarification of Semantic Ambiguity 72

1.2 Clarification of Grammatical Ambiguity 80

1.3 Clarification of Syntactic Ambiguity 82

1.4 Clarification of Conceptual Incongruities 84

1.5 Explicitation of What Is Already Explicit 91

2 Expansions that Elaborate 93

2.1 Adjectival Intensification 93

2.2 Additional Titles/Designations 94

2.3 Elaborative Expansions that Mimic the Co-text 95

2.4 Elaborative Expansions that Do Not Mimic the Co-text 107

3 Conclusions 120

V Expansions That Coordinate Multiple Co-texts: Harmonization and Assimilation 121

1 Expansions that Coordinate Multiple Co-texts within Ezekiel 122

1.1 Harmonization among the Vision Scenes (Ch. 1, 3, 8, 10, 40, 43) 122

1.2 Assimilation of Phraseology 132

1.3 Assimilation of Related Texts within a Narrative Unit 146

1.4 Assimilation of Related Texts within Ezekiel as a Whole 156

2 Expansions that Coordinate Related Texts in Ezekiel and Other Scriptural Books 181

2.1 Assimilative Explicitation 181

2.2 Assimilative Elaboration 192

2.3 Cross-Reference/Allusion 201

VI Conclusions and Prospects 206

1 Technique and Presentation of Jewish Scribal Interpretation 206

2 Scribal Expansion in Other Literary Traditions 209

3 The Scope of Scribal Expansion in Ezekiel 212

4 Coordinating Scribal Additions and the Emerging Scriptural Collection 213.

Notes:

Based on the author's dissertation--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 2010.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9783525540336

3525540337

OCLC:

905486133

Publisher Number:

9783525540336

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