The Text of Genesis 1-11 Textual Studies and Critical Edition

includes index and biblioraphy

1. Textual Studies
Theory, Method, Tools.............3
The Necessity of textual Criticism ...........................3
Types of Text-Critical Decision ................6
Major and minor Versions...............10
Terms for the Prehistory of M S and G ....................11
Tools for the textual criticism of Genesis ..................13
2. M and G in Genesis 1: 1-2:4...............16
The value of G in Genesis ..........16
Significant textual Variants .........20
Excursus: Divine names in G .............35
3. Textual Problems in M of Genesis 1-11.........40
The law of Scribes: Textual Change ..............40
Textual change in M ...........41
4. The chronologies of Genesis 5 and 11 ............61
The problem ...........61
Genesis 5: 3-32...............64
Genesis 11: 10-32......................71
Recensions of Genesis ............78
5. Harmonizing Tendencies in S and G ..................81
Harmonizing the Torah...............81
Harmonisations the S shared by S and M ..........854
Harmonizations in s and M .................86
Hormonizations in s. Alon M.............
Toward the tetual History of Genesis ......................83
2. Critical Edition

Introduction to the Critical Edition .................109
Rational for a Critical Edition ...109
Apparatus Significant Significant Textual Variants..................................116
Critial Text Apparatuses ...........................119