Twenty-eight rewritten and updated essays on the textual criticism of the Hebrew Bible, the Septuagint, and the Dead Sea Scrolls mainly published between 2019 and 2022 are presented in the fifth volume of the author's collected essays. They are joined by an unpublished study, an unpublished "reflection" on the development of text-critical research in 1970-2020 and the author's academic memoirs. All the topics included in this volume are at the forefront of textual research.
Emanuel Tov, Ph.D. (1974), Hebrew University, Jerusalem is J.L. Magnes Professor of Bible emeritus at that University. He has published many monographs on the textual criticism of the Hebrew Bible, Qumran, and the Septuagint and was the editor-in-chief of the DSS publication project.
Preface List of Tables Sources Abbreviations and Sources
Part 1 Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible
1 The Possible Revision of Hebrew Texts according to the Masoretic Text
2 Textual Harmonization in Leviticus
3 The Tenth Commandment of the Samaritans
4 The Philosophy of the Biblia Hebraica Quinta Edition