Editorial Techniques in Light of Textual Variants between Ezra-Nehemiah and 1 Esdras
Textual variants between 1 Esdras and Ezra-Nehemiah show a consistent picture of editorial processes. Scribal changes were mostly small and isolated additions, which implies a shared scribal milieu where texts could be slightly expanded but where older textual segments were only rarely omitted. The...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2024
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TC
Year: 2024, Volume: 29, Pages: 71-116 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Ezra
/ Nehemiah
/ Bible. Ezra 3
/ Auditing
/ Text history
/ Textual criticism
/ Variante
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| IxTheo Classification: | HB Old Testament |
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| Summary: | Textual variants between 1 Esdras and Ezra-Nehemiah show a consistent picture of editorial processes. Scribal changes were mostly small and isolated additions, which implies a shared scribal milieu where texts could be slightly expanded but where older textual segments were only rarely omitted. The revision that created 1 Esdras is an exception: omissions, replacements, transpositions, and large additions were much more widely used. For literary criticism (Literarkritik) the documented evidence in 1 Esdras and Ezra-Nehemiah provides an ambiguous result. Most additions and all replacements remain undetected. The creation of 1 Esdras is a particular challenge for the method, since it included major omissions and transpositions. On the other hand, changes other than additions were infrequent in the development of the texts. Critics probably notice a considerable number of additions that significantly changed the meaning of the text. This shows that the literary-critical method has its merits but needs to explore the documented evidence in much more detail and accept its limits. |
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| ISSN: | 1089-7747 |
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