
Multiple Originals
New Approaches to Hebrew Bible Textual Criticism
Gary D. Martin(Author)
Brill (Publisher)
Published on 10. March 2011
Book
Hardback
356 pages
978-90-04-18704-7 (ISBN)
Description
Textual criticism is in a period of change, as it seeks to account for an ever-growing body of textual data as well as the development of new methodologies. Since the older methodologies cannot simply be modified to meet our present needs, Multiple Originals seeks to build bridges between methods of traditional textual criticism and those of orality and formulaic analysis. Examining practices of textual criticism across a wide range of texts and disciplines, this book challenges the assumption that there can be only one correct reading and argues for the presence of multivalences of both meaning and text. It demonstrates that in some cases multivalences were intended by the composer, while in other cases, during the periods from which our earliest extant manuscripts derive, they fell within the limits of variability acceptable to those who valued and transmitted those texts.
Reviews / Votes
"Recommended for academic libraries supporting textual criticism or Biblical studies."Suzanne Smailes, Association of Jewish Libraries Reviews (2012) Vol. 2, No. 1
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Laminated cover
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 26 mm
Weight
1460 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-18704-7 (9789004187047)
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Person
Gary D. Martin is Lecturer of Biblical Hebrew and Ancient Near Eastern Studies at the University of Washington in Seattle.
Content
Introduction
Part One: Theoretical Models
Part Two: Multivalences of Meaning
Part Three: Multivalences of Text
Part Four: Agendas
Appendices
Bibliography
Index of Modern Authors
Index of Biblical References
Part One: Theoretical Models
Part Two: Multivalences of Meaning
Part Three: Multivalences of Text
Part Four: Agendas
Appendices
Bibliography
Index of Modern Authors
Index of Biblical References