
Text of the Old Testament
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- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Translator's Note
- Foreword
- List of Plates
- List of Tables
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction
- A. The Hebrew Text of the Bible
- 1. Language, Script, and Writing Materials
- 1.1. Biblical Hebrew
- 1.2. Script
- 1.3. Writing Materials
- 1.4. Scroll and Codex
- 1.5. Writing Implements and Ink
- 1.6. Literature
- 2. The Masoretic Text
- 2.1. The Consonantal Text
- 2.2. Tradition and Corrections
- 2.3. The Masoretic Vocalization
- 2.4. Text Divisions and Accents
- 2.5. Masorah Parva and Magna
- 2.6. Medieval Biblical Manuscripts
- 2.7. Printed Editions
- 2.8. Scholarly Editions of the Text
- 2.9. Literature
- 3. The Qumran Scrolls
- 3.1. The Qumran Settlement
- 3.2. The Dead Sea Biblical Manuscripts
- 3.3. Individual Scrolls of Biblical Books
- 3.4. Insight on the Early Phase of the History of the Text
- 3.5. Classification of Early Biblical Manuscripts
- 3.6. Scholarly Editions
- 3.7. Literature
- 4. The Samaritan Text
- 4.1. The History of the Samaritans
- 4.2. The Samaritan Pentateuch
- 4.3. Pre-Samaritan Texts
- 4.4. Scholarly Editions
- 4.5. Literature
- B. The Ancient Translations
- 5. The Septuagint
- 5.1. The Origins Legend
- 5.2. The Early History of the Text
- 5.3. The Jewish Recensions
- 5.4. The Hexapla of Origen
- 5.5. The Antiochene Text (Lucianic Recension)
- 5.6. The Great Codices
- 5.7. The Septuagint and the Hebrew Text
- 5.8. Scholarly Editions
- 5.9. Literature
- 6. Other Translations
- 6.1. Aramaic Targums
- 6.2. The Syriac Translation (Peshitta)
- 6.3. The Vulgate (Jerome)
- 6.4. The Old Latin Fragments (Vetus Latina)
- 6.5. The Other Translations
- 6.6. Literature
- C. Textual Criticism
- 7. The Goal and Task of Textual Criticism
- 7.1. Original Text and Final Text
- 7.2. The Limits of Literary Criticism
- 7.3. Definitions of Textual Criticism
- 7.4. Conjectures
- 8. Textual Corruptions, Changes, and Variants
- 8.1. Scribal Errors
- 8.2. Intentional Alterations
- 8.3. Alternative Readings
- 8.4. Literature
- 9. The Method of Textual Criticism
- 9.1. Reading the Apparatus of Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia
- 9.2. External Textual Criticism (External Criteria)
- 9.3. Internal Textual Criticism (Internal Criteria)
- 9.4. The Text-critical Decision
- 9.5. Text-critical Examples
- 9.6. The Importance of Textual Criticism
- 9.7. Literature
- Plates
- Abbreviations
- Bibliography
- Glossary
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