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Text and canon of the Hebrew Bible [electronic resource] : collected studies / Shemaryahu Talmon.

By: Talmon, Shemaryahu, 1920-.
Contributor(s): Mandel Institute of Jewish Studies (Jerusalem) | ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: Winona Lake, Ind. : Eisenbrauns, c2010Description: x, 545 p.Subject(s): Bible. Old Testament -- Criticism, Textual | Dead Sea scrollsGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 221.6/6 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
The textual study of the Bible : a new outlook -- Oral tradition and written transmission, or the heard and seen word in Judaism of the Second Temple period -- The paleo-Hebrew alphabet and biblical text criticism -- Synonymous readings in the masoretic text -- Double readings in the masoretic text -- Sam 15:32b : a case of conflate readings? -- A case of abbreviation resulting in double readings -- Emendation of biblical texts on the basis of Ugaritic parallels -- A case of faulty harmonization -- The town lists of the Tribe of Simeon : (1Chr 2:55) -- Amen as an introductory oath formula -- An apparently redundant reading in the masoretic text : (Jer 1:18) -- The three scrolls of the law found in the temple court -- Prolegomenon to the Ten Nequdoth of the Torah -- Pisqah beʼemsạʻ -- Pasuq and the psalms scroll from Qumran : cave 11 (11QPs[superscript a]) -- Textual criticism : the ancient versions -- The crystallization of the "canon of Hebrew scriptures" in the light of biblical scrolls from Qumran.

"Published in cooperation with the Mandel Institute of Jewish Studies, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem."

Collection of essays published elsewhere previously from 1954 to 2002.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [443]-498) and indexes.

The textual study of the Bible : a new outlook -- Oral tradition and written transmission, or the heard and seen word in Judaism of the Second Temple period -- The paleo-Hebrew alphabet and biblical text criticism -- Synonymous readings in the masoretic text -- Double readings in the masoretic text -- Sam 15:32b : a case of conflate readings? -- A case of abbreviation resulting in double readings -- Emendation of biblical texts on the basis of Ugaritic parallels -- A case of faulty harmonization -- The town lists of the Tribe of Simeon : (1Chr 2:55) -- Amen as an introductory oath formula -- An apparently redundant reading in the masoretic text : (Jer 1:18) -- The three scrolls of the law found in the temple court -- Prolegomenon to the Ten Nequdoth of the Torah -- Pisqah beʼemsạʻ -- Pasuq and the psalms scroll from Qumran : cave 11 (11QPs[superscript a]) -- Textual criticism : the ancient versions -- The crystallization of the "canon of Hebrew scriptures" in the light of biblical scrolls from Qumran.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.