New Book on the Hebrew Bible: Critical Edition by Ron Hendel

I just received word of a new book by Ron Hendel laying out the theory behind the Hebrew Bible: A Critical Edition series. I always enjoy reading Hendel's methodological work, so I'm sure this will make for a good read. :)

Steps to a New Edition of the Hebrew Bible
Ronald Hendel
ISBN	9781628371574
Status	Forthcoming
Price:	$45.95
Binding	Paperback
Publication Date	November 2016
Pages	330

Understand the purpose and background of the new The Hebrew Bible: A Critical Edition project


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.


Features

• Theory and practice of textual criticism
• Textual history of the Hebrew Bible
• History of text-critical scholarship

Ronald Hendel is the Norma and Sam Dabby Professor of Hebrew Bible and Jewish Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He has written many books and articles on biblical religion, language, and culture, and he is the general editor of The Hebrew Bible: A Critical Edition. His most recent book is The Book of Genesis: A Biography.


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Genizah Research Newsletter

In the latest newsletter of the Genizah Research Institute, Stefan Reif reports on a conference on the Hebrew texts of Ben Sirah.

They also highlight a new book on Greek translations in Byzantine Judaism, which will be of interest to those interested in the Greek Bible:

Nicholas de Lange, Japheth in the Tents of Shem: Greek Bible Translations in Byzantine Judaism (Mohr Siebeck, 2015).

TC Reviews from RBL

The most recent RBL has three reviews relevant to OTTC:


Guide to Hebrew Manuscript CollectionsRichler, Benjamin
Jerusalem: Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, 2014 pp. x + 409.2nd Edition. $60.00


La Biblia griega Septuaginta 3: Libros poéticos y sapiencialesMarcos, Natalio Fernandez, Jose Manuel Canas Reillo, Mercedes Lopez Salva, Inmaculada Delgado Jara, Antonio Pinero Saenz, Lorena Miralles Macia and M. Victoria Spottorno Diaz-Caro, translatorsSalamanaca: Ediciones Sigueme, 2013 pp. 670. $55.77


Reconsidering Nehemiah's Judah: The Case of MT and LXX Nehemia 11–12
Fulton, Deirdre N.Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2015 pp. xv + 258. €79.00










       

Peter Flint Has Passed Away

I just received word from Andy Perrin that Peter Flint has passed away. He will be sorely missed by friends and colleagues. Peter was well known for his important contributions to the study of the text of the Bible (particularly his work on the Psalms scrolls from Qumran and the large Isaiah scroll from cave 1) and the Dead Sea Scrolls, as well as his commitment to rigorous Evangelical biblical scholarship.

Christopher Rollston on the Jerusalem Papyrus

Christopher Rollston gets more specific on his concerns about the morphology of the text of the Jerusalem Papyrus in a recent blog post "The Jerusalem Papyrus: Complementary Notations".


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New Edition of Brotzman's "Old Testament Textual Criticism"

Baker is advertizing a new edition of Ellis Brotzman's Old Testament Textual Criticism, now co-authored with Eric Tully. I enjoyed reading the first edition, which is a great simple introduction to the topic. It will be interesting to see what the new edition includes.

Interview with Shmuel Ahituv on the Jerusalem Papyrus

Eve Harrow has an interesting interview with Shmuel Ahituv on the Jerusalem Papyrus.


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