Editing the Bible
Assessing the Task Past and Present
Biographical note
John S. Kloppenborg is Professor in the Department for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto. He is the author most recently of Q: The Earliest Gospel (Westminster John Knox), The Tenants in the Vineyard: Ideology, Economics, and Agrarian Conflict in Jewish Palestine (Mohr Siebeck), and the co-editor of Reading James with New Eyes (T&T Clark).
Judith H. Newman is Associate Professor of Old Testament/Hebrew Bible at Emmanuel College and holds joint appointments with the Department for the Study of Religion and the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations at the University of Toronto. She is the author of Praying by the Book: the Scripturalization of Prayer in Second Temple Judaism (Scholars Press), the co-author of Early Jewish Prayers in Greek (Walter de Gruyter), and the co-editor of The Idea of Biblical Interpretation: Essays in Honor of James L. Kugel (Brill). She has served as the editor of the SBL series Early Judaism and Its Literature.
Judith H. Newman is Associate Professor of Old Testament/Hebrew Bible at Emmanuel College and holds joint appointments with the Department for the Study of Religion and the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations at the University of Toronto. She is the author of Praying by the Book: the Scripturalization of Prayer in Second Temple Judaism (Scholars Press), the co-author of Early Jewish Prayers in Greek (Walter de Gruyter), and the co-editor of The Idea of Biblical Interpretation: Essays in Honor of James L. Kugel (Brill). She has served as the editor of the SBL series Early Judaism and Its Literature.
Table of contents
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Editing the Bible: Assessing the Task Past and Present
John S. Kloppenborg and Judith H. Newman
Th e Genealogy of the Biblical Editor
John Van Seters
Th e Evolutionary Composition of the Hebrew Bible
Eugene Ulrich
Editing the Hebrew Bible: An Overview of Some Problems
Eibert Tigchelaar
Evidence from the Qumran Scrolls for the Scribal Transmission of Leviticus
Sarianna Metso
Greek Papyri and the Texts of the Hebrew Bible
Kristin De Troyer
What Text Is Being Edited? Th e Editing of the New Testament
Michael W. Holmes
The Coherence-Based Genealogical Method: A New Way to Reconstruct the Text of the Greek New Testament
Klaus Wachtel
Scribal Practices and the Transmission of Biblical Texts: New Insights from the Coherence-Based Genealogical Method
Holger Strutwolf
Th e New Testament in the Light of Book Publishing in Antiquity
David Trobisch
Unseen Variants: Conjectural Emendation and the New Testament
Ryan Wettlaufer
Bibliography
Contributors
Index of Primary Sources
Abbreviations
Editing the Bible: Assessing the Task Past and Present
John S. Kloppenborg and Judith H. Newman
Th e Genealogy of the Biblical Editor
John Van Seters
Th e Evolutionary Composition of the Hebrew Bible
Eugene Ulrich
Editing the Hebrew Bible: An Overview of Some Problems
Eibert Tigchelaar
Evidence from the Qumran Scrolls for the Scribal Transmission of Leviticus
Sarianna Metso
Greek Papyri and the Texts of the Hebrew Bible
Kristin De Troyer
What Text Is Being Edited? Th e Editing of the New Testament
Michael W. Holmes
The Coherence-Based Genealogical Method: A New Way to Reconstruct the Text of the Greek New Testament
Klaus Wachtel
Scribal Practices and the Transmission of Biblical Texts: New Insights from the Coherence-Based Genealogical Method
Holger Strutwolf
Th e New Testament in the Light of Book Publishing in Antiquity
David Trobisch
Unseen Variants: Conjectural Emendation and the New Testament
Ryan Wettlaufer
Bibliography
Contributors
Index of Primary Sources
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