By Kloppenborg, John S., Newman, Judith H.
The Bible is probably going the most-edited e-book in background, but the duty of modifying the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek texts of the Bible is fraught with problems. the shortage of Hebrew manuscripts of the Jewish Scriptures and the massive modifications between these witnesses creates problems in picking out which textual content should be published because the textual content of the Jewish Scriptures. For the hot testomony, it isn't the lack of manuscripts however the overwhelming variety of manuscripts nearly six thousand Greek manuscripts and lots of extra in different languages that provides demanding situations for sorting and studying this kind of huge, multi-variant information set. This quantity, representing specialists within the enhancing of the Hebrew Bible and the recent testomony, discusses either present achievements and destiny demanding situations in growing glossy versions of the biblical texts of their unique languages. The members are Kristin De Troyer, Peter M. Head, Michael W. Holmes, John S. Kloppenborg, Sarianna Metso, Judith H. Newman, Holger Strutwolf, Eibert Tigchelaar, David Trobisch, Eugene Ulrich, John Van Seters, Klaus Wachtel, and Ryan Wettlaufer.
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This means that there never was a single MT for rabbinic Judaism, or an original LXX for Greek Jews and for Christians, let alone a single text of the Torah or collection of prophetic books for the Essenes. Why did Rabbi Meir, in his capacity as a professional scribe, make elegant copies of the Torah for use in synagogues, using an exemplar that did not correspond with the MT text as we understand it? Why did Philo think he was using the inspired text of the Seventy, when his text appears to correspond to a quite different “recension”?
In order adequately to describe and differentiate the textual or literary activities of those producing such changes, at least four different terms will be required. 1. Genesis It will prove instructive to explore examples of major, intentional work observable in the manuscript evidence. Though the main witnesses to Genesis display basically the same text throughout most of the book, the MT, the SP, and the LXX do present one interesting example of divergence. The chronologies in Gen 5 and 11 tabulating the ages of the prediluvian and postdiluvian ancestors display great variation between the three sources.
18 EDITING THE BIBLE the Iliad. It was his Überlieferungsgeschichte of Homer, his history of the transmission of the text, which scholars now call Redaktionsgeschichte, from the first edition to its final vernacular form. It is this scheme that Wellhausen emulated in his Prolegomena, at least for the Pentateuch and historical books, which he also referred to as their Überlieferungsgeschichten. 25 The grand scheme, which is extolled by so many leading figures in textual criticism, in literary criticism, in canonical exegesis and in the innerbiblical exegesis school, tends to envelop the whole of biblical studies.