Hendel, Ronald S. creator author. text bibliography Criticism, interpretation, etc. Electronic books. gau 2016 monographic eng 1 online resource. "Our understanding of the textual history of the Hebrew Bible has been transformed in the wake of the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Hendel explores and refines this new knowledge and formulates a rationale for a new edition of the Hebrew Bible. The chapters situate The Hebrew Bible: A Critical Edition project in a broad historical context, from the beginnings of textual criticism in late antiquity and the Renaissance to the controversies in contemporary theory and practice. This book combines close analysis with broad synthesis, yielding new perspectives on the text of the Hebrew Bible"-- 1. Prologue to the Hebrew Bible: a critical edition (HBCE) -- 2. A response to criticisms -- 3. The idea of a critical edition of the Hebrew Bible: a genealogy -- 4. What is a biblical book? -- 5. The epistemology of textual criticism -- 6. A typology of scribal error -- 7. Assessing the text-critical theories of the Hebrew Bible after Qumran -- 8. The (proto- ) Masoretic text of the Pentateuch -- 9. Problems of classification and other texts of the Pentateuch -- 10. The contribution of Frank Cross to textual criticism, with special attention to 4QSama -- 11. The dream of a perfect text: textual criticism and theology in early modern Europe -- 12. The untimeliness of biblical philology -- 13. From polyglot to hypertext -- Appendix: Comparing critical editions: BHQ Proverbs and HBCE Proverbs. by Ronald Hendel. Includes bibliographical references and index. Criticism, Textual RELIGION / Biblical Studies / Old Testament RELIGION / Judaism / Sacred Writings BS1136 221.4/46 Hendel, Ronald S., author. Atlanta : SBL Press, [2016] (DLC) 2016032650 9780884141945 0884141942 2016033404 969139 MIL 22573/ctt1h87s0h JSTOR http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1413652 http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1413652 DLC 160719 20200709060518.0 ocn953823642 eng