Text and canon of the Hebrew Bible
Subtitle: collected studies
By: Shemaryahu Talmon
Contributors: Mandel Institute of Jewish Studies (Jerusalem)
Publisher: Eisenbrauns
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Winona Lake, Ind
Language: eng
Number of pages: 545
ISBN-13: 9781575061924
Subjects: Bible; Dead Sea scrolls; Exegese; Dödahavsrullarna; Biblia Hebraica; Textkritik; Bibeln; Altes Testament; Textual Criticism
Notes: "Published in cooperation with the Mandel Institute of Jewish Studies, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem."

Collection of essays published elsewhere previously from 1954 to 2002.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 443-498) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: The textual study of the Bible : a new outlook; title: Oral tradition and written transmission, or the heard and seen word in Judaism of the Second Temple period; title: The paleo-Hebrew alphabet and biblical text criticism; title: Synonymous readings in the masoretic text; title: Double readings in the masoretic text; title: Sam 15:32b : a case of conflate readings?; title: A case of abbreviation resulting in double readings; title: Emendation of biblical texts on the basis of Ugaritic parallels; title: A case of faulty harmonization; title: The town lists of the Tribe of Simeon : (1Chr 2:55); title: Amen as an introductory oath formula; title: An apparently redundant reading in the masoretic text : (Jer 1:18); title: The three scrolls of the law found in the temple court; title: Prolegomenon to the Ten Nequdoth of the Torah; title: Pisqah beʼemṣaʻ; title: Pasuq and the psalms scroll from Qumran : cave 11 (11QPs[superscript a]); title: Textual criticism : the ancient versions; title: The crystallization of the "canon of Hebrew scriptures" in the light of biblical scrolls from Qumran.