[Rezension von: Parry, Donald W., 1953-, Exploring the Isaiah scrolls and their textual variants]
The Qumran scrolls of Isaiah (1QIsaa, 1QIsab, and a large number of fragments from Cave 4 and 5), representing as to dating and language ‘direct’ evidence of an early period in the textual history of the book, have turned out to be most important for the critical assessment of the Masoretic text (MT...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2020
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2020, Volume: 71, Issue: 2, Pages: 845-847 |
| Review of: | Exploring the Isaiah scrolls and their textual variants (Leiden : Brill, 2020) (Kooij, Arie van der)
Exploring the Isaiah scrolls and their textual variants (Leiden : Brill, 2020) (Kooij, Arie van der) Exploring the Isaiah scrolls and their textual variants (Leiden : Brill, 2020) (Kooij, Arie van der) |
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| Summary: | The Qumran scrolls of Isaiah (1QIsaa, 1QIsab, and a large number of fragments from Cave 4 and 5), representing as to dating and language ‘direct’ evidence of an early period in the textual history of the book, have turned out to be most important for the critical assessment of the Masoretic text (MT) of this book. The large number of variants attested by these manuscripts, in particular by 1QIsaa, has given rise to many and often diverging suggestions for explaining and evaluating the variant readings. The volume under review is most interesting as it, first of all, presents ‘on a verse-by-verse basis, the variants of the Hebrew witnesses of Isaiah’ (p. 1), and secondly, puts forward ‘judgements and characterizations regarding why specific variants exist’ (ibid.). The result of the whole endeavour is an impressive piece of work containing a wealth of information. Or to characterize the work as Eugene Ulrich has done in the foreword, the volume is ‘a highly useful compendium of the Hebrew textual variants of the book of Isaiah’ (p. vii). |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flaa126 |