Crawford - The Text of the Pentateuch: Textual Criticism and the Dead Sea Scrolls

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For Emanuel Tov and Eugene Ulrich

It is my happy duty to thank the many people who were involved in the production of this volume. I would like to thank Albrecht Dhnert for asking me to consider the project, Reinhard Kratz for accepting the volume, Sophie Wagenhofer and Aaron Overby-Sanborn for their help in shepherding the volume through the publication process, and Eleanor Beach, copy editor extraordinaire, who saved me from many errors.

I have been in dialogue with text critics around the world for many years as we wrestled with the new information in the Judean Desert texts and how to understand them and incorporate them into any history of the biblical text. First and foremost, my thanks are always to Frank Moore Cross zl, my teacher in textual criticism and mentor who involved me in the editing of the Deuteronomy manuscripts. Over the years my conversation partners have included George Brooke, Julie Ann Duncan, Russell Fuller, Ronald Hendel, Nathan Jastram, Robert Kawashima, Gerald N. Knoppers zl, Armin Lange, Bernard Levinson, Sarianna Metso, Andres Piquer-Otero, Lawrence M. Schiffman, John Strugnell zl, Shemaryahu Talmon zl, Eibert J. C. Tigchelaar, Pablo Torijano, Julio Trebolle Barrera, Ronald Troxel, Kristen de Troyer, James C. VanderKam, Benjamin G. Wright III, and Molly M. Zahn. Dan Crawford as always was ready to engage any issue, even those outside his own area of expertise; any philosophical discussion in these articles owes much to his instruction and insight.

It gives me great pleasure to dedicate this volume to my chief conversation partners over the past thirty years, Emanuel Tov and Eugene Ulrich. They have been my teachers, mentors, and collaborators, and my career would not have been possible without the warm friendship we have enjoyed over the years.

Sidnie White Crawford

May 31, 2021

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All previously published works are included here with the gracious permission of the original publishers.

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• 2.4QDtn: Biblical Manuscript or Excerpted Text? In Of Scribes and Scrolls: Festschrift for John Strugnell, edited by Harold Attridge, John Collins and Thomas Tobin, 13-20. Lanham, MD: Catholic Theology Society of America, 1990.
• 3.Special Features of Four Biblical Manuscripts from Cave IV, Qumran: 4QDta, 4QDtc, 4QDtd, and 4QDtg. RevQ 15 (1991): 157-67.
• 4.Three Deuteronomy Manuscripts from Cave 4, Qumran. JBL 112 (1993): 23-42.
• 5.Reading Deuteronomy in the Second Temple Period. In Reading the Present in the Qumran Library. The Perception of the Contemporary by Means of Scriptural Interpretation, edited by Kristin de Troyer and Armin Lange, 127-40. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2005.
• 6.Textual Criticism of Deuteronomy and the Oxford Hebrew Bible Project. In Seeking out the Wisdom of the Ancients: Essays offered to honor Michael V. Fox on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday, edited by Ronald Troxel, Kelvin G. Friebel, and Dennis R. Magary, 315-26. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2005.
• 7.The Pentateuch as Found in the Pre-Samaritan Texts and 4QReworked Pentateuch. In Changes in Scripture: Rewriting and Interpreting Authoritative Traditions in the Second Temple Period, edited by H. von Weissenberg, J. Pakkala, and M. Marttila, 123-36. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2011.
• 8.Biblical TextYes or No? In What is Bible? edited by Karin Finsterbusch and Armin Lange, Contributions to Biblical Exegesis and Theology 67, 113-20. Leuven: Peeters, 2012.
• 9.Understanding the Textual History of the Hebrew Bible: A New Proposal. In The Hebrew Bible in Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls, edited by Nra Dvid, Armin Lange, Kristin de Troyer, and Shani Tzoref, FRLANT 239, 60-69. Gttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2011.
• 10.The Qumran Pentateuch Scrolls: Their Literary Growth and Textual History. In The Qumran Legal Texts between the Hebrew Bible and Its Interpretation, edited by Kristin de Troyer and Armin Lange, CBET 61, 3-16. Leuven: Peeters, 2011.
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