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A Plague of Texts?
A Text-Critical Study of the So-Called âPlagues Narrativeâ in Exodus 7:14â11:10
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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 âPlagues Narrativeâ in Exod. 7:14â11:10. 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 âPlagues Narrativeâ in Exod. 7:14â11:10, namely MT, LXX, SamP, 4QpaleoExodáµ, 4QpaleoGen-Exodᶩ, 2QExodáµ, 4QExodá¶, 4QGen-Exodáµ 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.
Bénédicte Lemmelijn (1969) â Doctor in Theology/STD (1997) Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (BE) â 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.
"It can be safely concluded that in this study Lemmelijn has finally rid us of one 'Plague', the overemphasis on the Masoretic text!" - Johann Cook, in: Journal of Northwest Semitic Languages 37/2 (2011)
Scholars interested in methodological aspects of the text-critical study of the Hebrew Bible and the Septuagint in general and on the specific textual situation of the extant versions of the 'Plagues Narrative' in Exodus 7:14â11:10 in particular.