The Text of Genesis 1-11 Textual Studies and Critical Edition
- Oxford Oxford University Press 1998
- 168p
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