The Oxford Handbook of Textual Criticism of the Bible

Sidnie White Crawford, Tommy Wasserman (Autoren)

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732 Seiten

2026
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-758131-5 (ISBN)

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Oxford Handbook of the Textual Criticism of the Bible provides an overview of the disciplines of textual criticism of the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament as practiced in the twenty-first century. This volume first explores overarching issues like the formation of the Jewish and Christian canons; philosophical presuppositions in the methods and goals of textual criticism; the complex relationship between literary criticism and textual criticism; and how related fields of Book History, New/Material Philology, and paratextual criticism pose challenges and enrich traditional biblical textual criticism. Subsequently addressed is the textual criticism of the books of the Hebrew Bible, a field which has undergone a paradigm shift since the discovery of the Judean Desert scrolls. Each chapter discusses this shift in various ways, representing different philosophies of and approaches to the ways in which textual criticism can be practiced in a "post-Judean Desert texts" world. Finally, the text discusses the textual criticism of the New Testament and provides chapters concerned with the Greek manuscripts and the indirect evidence of the text in early versions and citations, as well as past and current methods for evaluating this evidence including the Coherence-Based Genealogical Method (CBGM).

Sidnie White Crawford is Professor of Hebrew Bible emerita at the University of Nebraska and a Visiting Professor at Princeton Theological Seminary. An internationally recognized scholar in the Dead Sea Scrolls and textual criticism of the Hebrew Bible, she is the author of The Text of the Pentateuch: Textual Criticism and the Dead Sea Scrolls (2022) and Scribes and Scrolls at Qumran (2019). She is the Chair of the Old Testament Editorial Board for Hermeneia, and Editor-in-Chief for The Hebrew Bible: A Critical Edition. Crawford served as a general editor (Hebrew Bible, Deuterocanon) for the 30-year review of the New Revised Standard Version. Tommy Wasserman is Professor of Biblical Studies at Ansgar University College, Kristiansand. He has published numerous books and articles in New Testament textual criticism. He is the editor of TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism (SBL Press) and of New Testament Tools Studies and Documents (Brill). He is secretary of the International Greek New Testament Project that oversees the publication of critical editions of the Greek NT and serves on the board of the Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts.

List of Contributors

List of Abbreviations

Acknowledgements

Introduction to the Volume
Sidnie White Crawford and Tommy Wasserman

Part I Introductory Articles

1. The Formation of the Jewish Canon
James C. VanderKam

2. The Formation of the Christian Canon
John D. Meade

3. Philosophies of Textual Criticism for the Hebrew Bible
Ronald Hendel

4. Beyond "Textual" and "Literary" Criticism: A New Paradigm for the Study of Textual History
Molly M. Zahn

5. Philosophies of Textual Criticism for the New Testament
Michael W. Holmes

6. Book History, New/Material Philology, and Paratextual Criticism
David Davage and Liv Ingeborg Lied

Part II The Hebrew Bible and the Deuterocanon

7. The History of Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible from Antiquity to the Twentieth Century
Eugene Ulrich and Sidnie White Crawford

8. The Earliest Texts of the Hebrew Bible
Emanuel Tov

9. The Masoretic Text and its Value for Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible
Armin Lange

10. The Significance of the Septuagint in the Textual Study of the Hebrew Bible
Anneli Aejmelaeus

11. The Samaritan Pentateuch and its Value for Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible
Hila Dayfani

12. The Syriac Peshitta and its Value for Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible
Bradley J. Marsh, Jr.

13. The Latin Versions and their Value for Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible
Andrés Piquer Otero and Pablo A. Torijano

14. The Targumim and their Value for Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible
Leeor Gottlieb

15. Editing the Hebrew Bible: Biblia Hebraica Quinta
Innocent Himbaza

16. Editing the Hebrew Bible: The Hebrew University Bible Project
Michael Segal

17. Editing the Hebrew Bible: The Hebrew Bible: A Critical Edition
Ronald Hendel

18. Teaching Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible
John Screnock

19. The Theory and Practice of Textual Criticism of the Septuagint
Tuukka Kauhanen

20. The Practice of Hebrew Bible Textual Criticism in the Twenty-First Century
Drew Longacre

21. Issues in the Textual Criticism of the Deuterocanon
Benjamin G. Wright, III

Part III The New Testament

22. The Practice of New Testament Textual Criticism in the Twenty-First Century
H. A. G. Houghton

23. The History of New Testament Textual Criticism
Jan Krans and An-Ting Yi

24. The Dating of Early Christian Manuscripts: Paleography and Material Culture
Pasquale Orsini

25. Text-Types and the Coherence-Based Genealogical Method
Peter J. Gurry

26. The Greek New Testament Manuscripts and Other Witnesses
Elijah Hixson

27. The Syriac and Christian Palestinan Aramaic Versions of the New Testament
Andreas Juckel

28. The Latin Versions of the New Testament
Georg Gäbel

29. The Coptic Versions of the New Testament
Christian Askeland

30. The Ethiopic Version of the New Testament
Curt Niccum

31. The Gothic Version of the New Testament
Carla Falluomini

32. Patristic Evidence in New Testament Textual Criticism
Holger Strutwolf

33. Criteria for the Assessment of Readings in New Testament Textual Criticism
Tommy Wasserman

34. The New Testament Text, Paratexts and Reception History
Jennifer W. Knust

35. New Testament Textual Criticism and Exegesis
Elisabeth E. Shively

36. New Testament Textual Criticism and Digital Humanities
Claire Clivaz

37. Critical Editions of the Greek New Testament from the Twentieth to Twenty-First Century
Annette Hüffmeier and Gregory S. Paulson

38. New Testament Textual Criticism in Teaching and Practice
Amy S. Anderson

Erscheinungsdatum	05.11.2025
Reihe/Serie	Oxford Handbooks
Zusatzinfo	16 illustrations
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	184 x 250 mm
Gewicht	1383 g
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Bibelausgaben / Bibelkommentare
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
ISBN-10	0-19-758131-5 / 0197581315
ISBN-13	978-0-19-758131-5 / 9780197581315
Zustand	Neuware