The Qumran manuscripts of Lamentations : a text-critical study / by Gideon R. Kotzé.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kotzé, Gideon R.

Series:

Studia Semitica Neerlandica 61.

Studia Semitica Neerlandica, 0081-6914 ; . 61

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dead Sea scrolls.

Bible. Lamentations--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bible.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (221 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In The Qumran Manuscripts of Lamentations: A Text-Critical Study , the first large-scale investigation of the topic, Gideon Kotzé establishes how the four Lamentations manuscripts from Qumran present the content of the biblical book. Kotzé takes as his point of departure the contributions of the Dead Sea scrolls to the discipline of Old Testament textual criticism and treats the Qumran manuscripts of Lamentations, the Masoretic text and the ancient translations as witnesses to the content of the book and not only as witnesses to earlier forms of its Hebrew text. By focusing the analysis on variant readings and textual difficulties, the study arrives at a better understanding of these manuscripts as representatives of both the text and the content of Lamentations.

Contents:

Front Matter / Gideon R. Kotzé

Introduction / Gideon R. Kotzé

Transcriptions of the Qumran Manuscripts of Lamentations with an Overview of Their Formal Characteristics / Gideon R. Kotzé

Text-Critical Analyses of the Wording of Lam 1 as Witnessed to by 4QLam / Gideon R. Kotzé

Text-Critical Analyses of the Wording of Lam 4 as Witnessed to by 5QLama and 5QLamb / Gideon R. Kotzé

Text-Critical Analyses of the Wording of Lam 5 as it is Witnessed to by 5QLama / Gideon R. Kotzé

Conclusions / Gideon R. Kotzé

Bibliography / Gideon R. Kotzé

Indexes / Gideon R. Kotzé.

Notes:

Revised version of author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Stellenbosch, 2010.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789004242098

9004242090

OCLC:

854521054

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004242098 DOI