The text of the Hebrew Bible
Subtitle: from the rabbis to Masoretes
By: Elvira Martín-Contreras, Lorena Miralles-Maciá (eds.).
Contributors: Miralles Maciá, Lorena, editor
Series: Journal of ancient Judaism. Supplements -- volume 13; Journal of ancient Judaism -- vol. 13.
Publisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Göttingen
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9783525550649; 9783647550640
Subjects: Bible; Étude et enseignement; Masorah; Textgeschichte; Assore; Altes Testament; Textual Criticism; Masora; Rabbinische Literatur; Critique et exégèse juives; Hebräisch; Masoretischer Text
Description: "This book aims to open up the discussion and research of the up to now unstudied period of the History of the Hebrew Bible text: the period from the apparent stabilization of the Hebrew biblical text until the standardization that is reflected in the manuscripts of biblical text, those including the Masorah (c. 2nd &#x2013; 9th centuries A.D.). What took place from the time of the standardization of the consonantic text of the Hebrew Bible until the appearance of the first Masoretic codices? How was the biblical text preserved in the meantime? How was the body of notes that makes up the Masorah formed? How can the diversity of the textual traditions contained in the Masorah be explained and be consistent with the idea of a text established and standardized centuries before?"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-239) and index.
Table of contents: title: Interdisciplinary perspectives for the study of the text of the Hebrew Bible : open questions  -- Elvira Martín-Contreras and Lorena Miralles-Maciá -- I.; title: The preservation and transmission of the Hebrew Bible --; title: The myth of the stabilization of the text of Hebrew scripture  -- Emanuel Tov; title: Did the sopherim create a standard edition of the Hebrew scriptures?  -- John Van Seters; title: Standardization or preservation? Some comments on the textual history of the Hebrew Bible in the light of Josephus and rabbinic literature  -- Arie van der Kooij; title: Rabbinic ways of preservation and transmission of the biblical text in the light of Masoretic sources  -- Elvira Martín-Contreras; title: Preliminary notes on grammar and orthography in Halakhic Midrashim : late additions?  -- Günter Stemberger; title: The behavior of the Hebrew medieval manuscripts and the Vulgate, Aramaic and Syriac versions of 1-2 Kings vis-à-vis the Masoretic text and the Greek version  -- Julio Trebolle and Pablo Torijano -- II.; title: The Masorah and other approaches to study the text of the Hebrew Bible --; title: The Severus scroll and Rabbi Meir's Torah  -- Nathan R. Jastram; title: Some literary features of Midrashic and Masoretic statements  -- Alex Samely; title: Targum & Masorah : does Targum Jonathan follow the "Madinhae" readings of ketiv-qere?  -- Willem F. Smelik; title: Does the Tiberian accentuation system preseve the Babylonian accentuation system?  -- Lea Himmelfarb; title: Three enigmatic notes from the Babylonian Masorah comparing the language of the Hebrew Bible and the Mishnah  -- Yosef Ofer; title: The practical use of the Masorah for the elucidation of the story of Samuel's birth -- David Marcus.