A Plague of Texts?

A Text-Critical Study of the So-Called 'Plagues Narrative' in Exodus 7:14-11:10
Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-90-04-17235-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 56, 384 Seiten, Format (B × H): 169 mm x 247 mm, Gewicht: 803 g

Reihe: Oudtestamentische Studiën, Old Testament Studies

Prior to any attempt to study a text at the literary level, the textual material itself has to be carefully established. It is for this reason that the present volume is devoted to a detailed text-critical study of the 'physical' text of the ‘Plagues Narrative’ in Exod. 7:14–11:10. In the first chapter, the author formulates a number of prolegomena relating to textual criticism as a discipline, the extant textual material, the terminology employed and the methodological model that serves as the basis of this study. In the second chapter, data provided by the various textual forms of the ‘Plagues Narrative’ in Exod. 7:14–11:10, namely MT, LXX, SamP, 4QpaleoExodm, 4QpaleoGen-Exodl, 2QExoda, 4QExodc, 4QGen-Exoda and 4QExodj, are registered and described. The extant textual versions themselves are presented in the form of a synopsis, added as an appendix to this book. The third and final chapter offers the text-critical evaluation of all 'text-relevant' variants.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lemmelijn, Bénédicte

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Bénédicte Lemmelijn (1969) – Doctor in Theology/STD (1997) Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (BE) – is Professor of Old Testament at the K.U.Leuven and staff-member of the Leuven Centre of Septuagint Studies and Textual Criticism, Postdoctoral Fellow of the Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO) and Research Fellow of the University of the Free State (SA). She has published on redaction and textual criticism of Exod. 7:14-11:10 and on methodological aspects of the study of LXX translation technique.