Making the Biblical Text: Textual Studies in the Hebrew and the Greek Bible

Originating in a symposium organized by the Institut Dominique

Barthelemy and held on 4-5 November 2011 at the University of Fribourg,

Switzerland, this book presents eight essays on the textual and literary

history of the Hebrew Bible and the Greek Bible. It is commonplace today

to speak of multiple text types in the earliest text history of the

Hebrew Bible. But how can this multiplicity be most adequately

explained? Does it result from different places, or from different

Jewish communities reading texts in parallel text forms (Jews in

Jerusalem, Samaritans, Alexandrian Jews, etc.)? Does one have to reckon

with different qualities and/or evaluations of certain text forms? In

other words, among the different text types known to us, were there some

which enjoyed special esteem and recognition in antiquity - and if yes,

by whom?