Critica Biblica; Or, Critical Notes on the Text of the Old Testament Writings

Critica Biblica; Or, Critical Notes on the Text of the Old Testament Writings
Author: T. K. (Thomas Kelly) Cheyne
Publisher: Hardpress Publishing
Total Pages: 510
Release: 2012-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9781407716855

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Studies in the Text of the Old Testament

Studies in the Text of the Old Testament
Author: Dominique Barthélemy
Publisher: Penn State Press
Total Pages: 721
Release: 2012-11-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 157506670X

Studies in the Text of the Old Testament offers to the English-speaking world the combined introductions to the first three volumes of Dominique Barthélemy’s Critique Textuelle de l’Ancien Testament. CTAT was the culmination of the Hebrew Old Testament Text Project, launched by the United Bible Societies in 1969 and carried out by an international team of Old Testament textual critics under the leadership of Eugene Nida. As Emanuel Tov has stated, these introductions form “an almost complete introduction” to the textual criticism of the Hebrew Bible. They hold an important place in Old Testament textual criticism and can stand alone, apart from the detailed discussions of the textual problems found in the volumes. Part one surveys the history of OT textual criticism “from its origins to J. D. Michaelis” and presents the Hebrew Old Testament Text Project and its goals. Part two describes in detail the background of the modern versions that the HOTTP took into account in its work. Part three, the most extensive section, discusses the textual witnesses—the different forms of the Hebrew text and the contribution of the ancient versions. As his concluding program for a critical edition makes clear, the groundbreaking work of Barthélemy and the HOTTP served as the basis for the new Biblia Hebraica Quinta, which began publication in 2004. UBS undertook the HOTTP to offer Bible translators help in applying the results of textual criticism to their work, but there is no doubt that many others will benefit from this work, as well as the other volumes in the series “Textual Criticism and the Translator.”

Critica Biblica

Critica Biblica
Author: T. K. Cheyne
Publisher:
Total Pages: 506
Release: 2015-08-05
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781332228324

Excerpt from Critica Biblica: Or Critical Notes on the d104 of the Old Testament Writings A great period of Biblical criticism has come to a close. There are now few books published by Old Testament scholars as boldly progressive as Kuenen's Onderzoek, Wellhausen's Der d104 Samuelis and Prolegomena, Klostermann's Samuel und Konige; and when, by a happy accident, such an able pioneering work as Gunkel's Schopfung und Chaos is given us, it is to the author's exaggeration of the points in which he appears to differ from Wellhausen that he owes some part of his success. Of the three critics first mentioned, two still remain to us. Klostermann's work, however, has not yet apparently made its public; and Wellhausen, of whom it was once said, in Schiller's words, 'War' er besonnen, war' er nicht der Tell, ' now feels himself 'too old' to trouble himself about the 'very latest criticism, ' and can hardly be said to have put his full strength into his most recent work on the Old Testament. It is no doubt Wellhausen himself who has taught us to apply the highest standard to his books, and he may yet become more manifestly our leader. But so much at least may, without fear of contradiction, be affirmed, that the Old Testament teaching which is now in the ascendant is distinctively cautious, and that scholars generally confine themselves to work in narrow grooves, and use old even if improved methods. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."