Urtext and variance : the quest for the texts of the Hebrew Bible / Frédérique Michèle Rey, Stefan Schorch, Sophie Robert-Hayek (eds.).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rey, Frédérique Michèle, editor.

Schorch, Stefan, editor.

Robert-Hayek, Sophie, editor.

Series:

Contributions to biblical exegesis and theology ; 0926-6097 122.

Contributions to biblical exegesis and theology, 0926-6097 ; 122

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible. Old Testament--Criticism, Textual--Congresses.

Bible.

Bible. Old Testament--Texts--History--Congresses.

Genre:

proceedings (reports)

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

ix, 388 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Leuven : Peeters, 2025.

Summary:

'Focusing at "Urtext", "Variance" and further fundamental concepts of the textual history of the Hebrew Bible, the thirteen chapters collected in this volume provide analyses of their heuristic potential, methodological problems, and implications, proceeding from evidence emerging from a wide range of Biblical texts and textual witnesses.' -- Publisher, page four of cover.

Contents:

Introduction / Frédérique Michèle Rey, / Stefan Schorch, / Sophie Robert-Hayek

Original and archetype in open and closed books / Ronald Hendel

One archetype behind the textual diversity of the Pentateuch / Innocent Himbaza

In praise of the conjecture : the Emendatio Ope Ingenii after Qumran / Corrado Martone

With what level of confidence can we construct an archetype of decalogue texts from Hebrew Biblical manuscripts? / Gary Martin

2 Kings 4 : between typology and redaction / Andres Piquer Otero, / Pablo Torijano Morales

Stemma Codicum and Urtext : the stemma of the Hebrew manuscripts of Ben Sira as test case / Frédérique Michèle Rey, / Sophie Robert-Hayek, / Davide D'Amico

Reflections on the model of early parallel texts / Matthieu Richelle

4QNumb LXX vs. MT SP : evidence for non-linear processes in the textual development of the Book of Numbers from a neglected variant pattern / Kirsten M. Schäfers

Le manuscrit à l'époque de sa reproduction numérique : the medial representation of the biblical text vis-a-vis the conceptualization of textual history in light of Walter Benjamin's media theory / Stefan Schorch

The search for an original text form of the Hebrew Bible : theory and praxis / Emanuel Tov

How many Books of Ezekiel? A text critical analysis of Ezek 43:10-12 / Martin Tscheu

Indeed "no small difference" : but what is distinguished from what? / Frank Ueberschaer

The stemmatic method - A useful tool to evaluate assumptions on literary "growth" or "development", examined using the example of Jer 52 / Benjamin Ziemer

Notes:

"Our thanks go to the participants of the conference ... also grateful to the ANR/DFG funding of the PLURITEXT project, the MSH Lorraine and the laboratoire Ecritures (EA 3943), all of which provided funds to organize the conference." -- See, "Introduction," page ix.

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

e-book version

ISBN:

9789042954687

904295468X

OCLC:

1559625811

Publisher Number:

9789042954687