Acknowledgments
As editors, we would like to acknowledge the direct and indirect assistance of several people and institutions. Firstly, we are grateful to the Centre Paul-Albert Février TDMAM Research Centre (UMR 7297) of Aix-Marseille University for having encouraged and supported the interdisciplinary event that is at the origins of the present volume. The colloquium entitled Research Approaches in Hebrew Bible Manuscript Studies. A Critical Overview Based on Evidence from the Dead Sea Scrolls, Cairo Genizah, and European Genizah, which was held at the Maison Méditerranéenne des Sciences de l’ Homme (MMSH) in Aix-en-Provence from June 6 to 8, 2016, was a rich and interesting first meeting, co-organised by the two of us together with Samuel Blapp (Cambridge University). We are also deeply grateful for the enthusiastic support received from the EAJS who awarded our conference project a EAJS Laboratory Grant.
The conception, editing, and preparation of this volume as an edited book has been possible thanks to the ANR Project Manuscripta Bibliae Hebraicae (MBH) (Projet ANR-16-ACHN-0008), the collaboration of the late Prof. Philippe Cassuto (1959–2020), the anonymous peer reviewers who provided useful criticism and suggestions, and the help of Monica Biberson who has enormously contributed to this volume as copy editor.
Finally, we are especially grateful to the authors of each of these contributions for their patience and collaboration with us, to the peer-reviewers for their constructive criticisms, to Armin Lange for his encouragement in publishing this book in Brill’s THBS series, and to the editors Russel Fuller, Matthias Henze, and Emanuel Tov for accepting to include the volume in this series.