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The Transmission of the Pentateuch
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 234

The Transmission of the Pentateuch

The volume focuses on variants between the Masoretic Text and the Samaritan Pentateuch prompted by graphic similarities between letters. As a phenomenon that occurs during the transmission of ancient texts, an in-depth study of the linguistic and paleographic background of these variants provides fruitful ground for the exploration of the Pentateuch transmission. This volume gathers all the relevant variants from the Masoretic Text and the Samaritan Pentateuch, comparing them to further witnesses, primarily the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Septuagint. Each case is examined independently through a linguistic analysis of the variants, their process of development and an evaluation of which version...

Scribal Memory and Word Selection
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 369

Scribal Memory and Word Selection

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2023-07-21
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  • Publisher: SBL Press

What were ancient scribes doing when they copied a manuscript of a literary work? This question is especially problematic when we realize that ancient scribes preserved different versions of the same literary texts. In Scribal Memory and Word Selection: Text Criticism of the Hebrew Bible, Raymond F. Person Jr. draws from studies of how words are selected in everyday conversation to illustrate that the same word-selection mechanisms were at work in scribal memory. Using examples from manuscripts of the Hebrew Bible, Person provides new ways of understanding the cognitive-linguistic mechanisms at work during the composition/transmission of texts. Person reveals that, while our modern perspective may consider textual variants to be different literary texts, from the perspective of the ancient scribes and their audiences, these variants could still be understood as the same literary text.

Material and Digital Reconstruction of Fragmentary Dead Sea Scrolls
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 296

Material and Digital Reconstruction of Fragmentary Dead Sea Scrolls

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2022-06-27
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  • Publisher: BRILL

Scholars working with ancient scrolls seek ways to extract maximum information from the multitude of fragments. Various methods were applied to that end on the Dead Sea Scrolls as well as on other ancient texts. The present book augments these methods to a full-scale protocol, while adapting them to a new computerized environment. Fundamental methodological issues are illuminated as part of the discussion, and the potential margin of error is provided on an empirical basis, as practiced in the sciences. The method is then exemplified with regard to the scroll 4Q418a, a copy of a wisdom composition from Qumran.

The Making of the Tabernacle and the Construction of Priestly Hegemony
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 323

The Making of the Tabernacle and the Construction of Priestly Hegemony

How did the Jerusalem high priests go from being cultic servants in the sixth century BCE to assuming political supremacy at some point during the third or second century? The Making of the Tabernacle and the Construction of Priestly Hegemony examines how the conditions were created for the priesthood's rise to power by examining the most important ideological texts for the high priests: the description of the wilderness tabernacle and the instructions for the ordination ritual found in the Biblical books of Exodus and Leviticus. Although neglected by many modern readers, who often find them technical and repetitive, the tabernacle accounts excited considerable interest amongst early scribes...

Early Christian Scripture and the Samaritan Pentateuch
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 818

Early Christian Scripture and the Samaritan Pentateuch

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Studies in Textual Criticism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 515

Studies in Textual Criticism

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2024-02-06
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  • Publisher: BRILL

Twenty-eight rewritten and updated essays on the textual criticism of the Hebrew Bible, the Septuagint, and the Dead Sea Scrolls mainly published between 2019 and 2022 are presented in the fifth volume of the author's collected essays. They are joined by an unpublished study, an unpublished "reflection" on the development of text-critical research in 1970-2020 and the author's academic memoirs. All the topics included in this volume are at the forefront of textual research.

The Hebrew Bible Manuscripts: A Millennium
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 485

The Hebrew Bible Manuscripts: A Millennium

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2022-02-22
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  • Publisher: BRILL

In The Hebrew Bible: A Millennium, manuscripts, texts, and methods applied in Hebrew Bible studies are considered through time. The Dead Sea Scrolls, the Cairo and European Genizot, as well as Late Medieval Biblical Manuscripts are examined.

Second Enoch: A Samaritan Apocalypse
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 193

Second Enoch: A Samaritan Apocalypse

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2024-10-14
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  • Publisher: BRILL

This study marks a bold new departure in 2 Enoch studies. The book has long been regarded as one of the most baffling apocalypses to come down to us from antiquity. The present work argues that 2 Enoch was written by a 1st c. CE Samaritan author whose purpose was to incorporate the Enochic tradition into Samaritanism. By identifying Enoch as the “prophet like Moses” (Deut. 18:15, 18), both during his earthly past and in the eschatological future, the author of 2 Enoch hoped to combat the Dosithean heresy and also to persuade co-religionists to resume a full sacrificial cultus in the shadow of Mt. Gerizim.

Yahwism under the Achaemenid Empire
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 744

Yahwism under the Achaemenid Empire

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Sacred Stimulus
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 233

Sacred Stimulus

How did early Christian Rome deal with the fact that Christ was never there? Sacred Stimulus is about the effect Jerusalem had on the formulation of Christian art in Rome during the fourth and fifth centuries. It deals with the visual Christianization of Rome from an almost neglected perspective: not in comparison to pagan art in Rome, not as reflecting the struggle with Constantinople, but rather as visual expressions of the idea of Jerusalem and its holy sites and traditions.