
Exploring the Isaiah Scrolls and Their Textual Variants
Donald W. Parry(Author)
Brill (Publisher)
Published on 10. October 2019
Book
Hardback
524 pages
978-90-04-41059-6 (ISBN)
Description
In Exploring the Isaiah Scrolls and Their Textual Variants, Donald W. Parry systematically presents, on a verse-by-verse basis, the variants of the Hebrew witnesses of Isaiah (the Masoretic Text and the twenty-one Isaiah Dead Sea Scrolls) and briefly discusses why each variant exists. The Isaiah scrolls have greatly impacted our understanding of the textual history of the Bible, and in recent decades, Bible translation committees have incorporated a number of the variants into their translations; as such, the Isaiah scrolls are important for both academic and popular audiences. Variant characterizations include four categories: (a) accidental errors, e.g., dittography, haplography, metathesis, graphic similarity; (b) intentional changes by scribes and copyists; (c) synonymous readings; (d) scribes' stylistic approaches and conventions.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 36 mm
Weight
946 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-41059-6 (9789004410596)
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Donald W. Parry, Ph.D., Professor of Hebrew Bible Studies, holds the Abraham O. Smoot Professorship at Brigham Young University. He has served as a member of the International Team of Editors of the Dead Sea Scrolls and has authored or (co)edited several articles and books on the Scrolls and the Hebrew Bible.