The Comparative Textual Criticism of Religious Scriptures

Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-90-04-69175-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 8, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 440 g

Reihe: Supplements to the Textual History of the Bible

This collection of articles uniquely brings into scholarly dialogue the textual history and criticism of authoritative literatures from diverse cultures: they study Mesopotamian literature, the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament, the Homeric epics, the Quran, and Hindu and Buddhist literatures with an interest in all matters of their textual transmission.

Contributors address questions such as: What role does textual criticism play in the study of authoritative texts in these fields? How much variation exists in these textual traditions? Can you observe processes of textual standardization? What role does the oral transmission play? How are critical editions prepared? While these questions have produced a wealth of scholarly literature for each individual field, this volume is the first to study them from a comparative perspective.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Finsterbusch, Karin

Fuller, Russell

Lange, Armin

Driesbach, Jason

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Bibliographical Abbreviations

Introduction

Karin Finsterbusch, Armin Lange and Russell E. Fuller

The Evolution of the Pentateuchal Narratives in the Light of the Evolution of the Gilgamesh Epic

Jeffrey H. Tigay

Mesopotamian Textual Criticism in Comparative Perspective

Paul Delnero

Textual Criticism and the Homeric Epics

Graeme Bird

The Hebrew Texts of the Bible and Their Value for Textual Criticism

Armin Lange and Karin Finsterbusch

Textual Criticism of the New Testament

Elizabeth Schrader Polczer

Textual Criticism and the Evolution of Rabbinic Texts

Will There Ever Be a Final Text?

Lawrence H. Schiffman

Textual Criticism of the Quran

Marijn van Putten

A Mighty Tree or a Delicate Braid?

A History and Critique of Critical Text Editing in Buddhist Studies

Nicholas Trautz

Textual Criticism and Ancient Hindu Texts

Signe Cohen

The Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible as Compared with the Textual Criticism of Other Literatures

Emanuel Tov

Über Autor(innen)

Karin Finsterbusch, Dr. theol. (1994), University of Heidelberg, is Professor of Old Testament Studies at the University of Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU). She has published on the Hebrew Bible, its textual criticism, Second Temple Judaism, Early Christianity, and the text of the Septuagint and Hebrew Bible.

Russell E. Fuller, PhD (1988, Harvard University), is professor of Hebrew Bible in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of San Diego. He is a member of the international team of editors for the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Armin Lange is professor of Second Temple Judaism and Antisemitism Studies at the University of Vienna, a member of the international team editing the Dead Sea Scrolls, and a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. He has published on the Hebrew Bible, its textual criticism, Second Temple Judaism, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the religious history of antisemitism.

Jason K. Driesbach, PhD (2015), Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is the author of 4QSamuel and the Text of Samuel (Brill, 2016). He has also contributed to the Historical Theological Lexicon of the Septuagint, vol. 1 (Mohr Siebeck, 2020).