By Michael Meer

This quantity deals a serious exam of modern theories in regards to the development of biblical literature within the gentle of the oldest textual witnesses (the Qumran biblical scrolls and the Septuagint). at the foundation of a clean exam of a variety of passages within the publication of Joshua, it truly is proven that those witnesses don't replicate a degree within the literary formation of the booklet sooner than the standardised (Masoretic) textual content, yet a reinterpretation and reformulation of its contents. The research provides a brand new literary-critical strategy to the difficult difficulties of Joshua eight and a close exegesis of the Greek model of Joshua 1 and five. Of specific curiosity for Qumran students is the recent reconstruction of 4QJoshua-a.

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78- 105, especially p . 90 (= The Origins qf the Bible, pp. 103- 104). 27 E. W. C . ), The Dead Sea Serolls afler Fifly Years, pp. 88-89. Ulrich uses the siglum n+ in order to indicate that the process or re-editing the biblical compositions is not restricted to the editions still preserved in Qumran, LXX and SamP, but preceded by an unknown number or editions (a- m) no longer extant, see E. ULRICH, Plurirormity in the Biblical Text, Text Groups, and Questions of Canon, in J. TREBOLLE BARRERA, L.

STDJ 20) Leiden/New York/Köln 1996, pp. 78- 105, especially p . 90 (= The Origins qf the Bible, pp. 103- 104). 27 E. W. C . ), The Dead Sea Serolls afler Fifly Years, pp. 88-89. Ulrich uses the siglum n+ in order to indicate that the process or re-editing the biblical compositions is not restricted to the editions still preserved in Qumran, LXX and SamP, but preceded by an unknown number or editions (a- m) no longer extant, see E. ULRICH, Plurirormity in the Biblical Text, Text Groups, and Questions of Canon, in J.

His notation has been adopted here. 1389) and the Swiss Bodmer (no. F. ), ]oshua i-vi and other passages in Sahidic, edited ]rom a Jourth century Sahidic codex in the Chester Beatty Library. (Chester Beatty Monographs 9) Dublin 1963; and R. ), Papyrus Bodmer XXI. ]osue VI,16-25, VII,6-XI,23, XXII, 1-2, 19-XIII,7, 15-XXIV,23. (Bibliotheca Bodmeriana) Cologne/Geneve 1965; R. KASSER, L'evangile selon saint ]ean et les versions coptes de la BiNe. Neuchätell Paris 1966, pp. 90-167, offers a complete re-edition of both the Bodmer and Chester Beatty parts of the codex; [sa 19] a seventh century CE manuscript edited by H.

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