The Comparative Textual Criticism of Religious Scriptures: (8 Supplements to the Textual History of the Bible)

This collection of articles uniquely brings into scholarly dialogue the textual history and criticism of authoritative literatures from diverse cultures: they study Mesopotamian literature, the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament, the Homeric epics, the Quran, and Hindu and Buddhist literatures with an interest in all matters of the textual transmission.

Table of Contents:
Bibliographical Abbreviations Introduction  Karin Finsterbusch, Armin Lange and Russell E. Fuller The Evolution of the Pentateuchal Narratives in the Light of the Evolution of the Gilgamesh Epic  Jeffrey H. Tigay Mesopotamian Textual Criticism in Comparative Perspective  Paul Delnero Textual Criticism and the Homeric Epics  Graeme Bird The Hebrew Texts of the Bible and Their Value for Textual Criticism  Armin Lange and Karin Finsterbusch Textual Criticism of the New Testament  Elizabeth Schrader Polczer Textual Criticism and the Evolution of Rabbinic Texts Will There Ever Be a Final Text?  Lawrence H. Schiffman Textual Criticism of the Quran  Marijn van Putten A Mighty Tree or a Delicate Braid? A History and Critique of Critical Text Editing in Buddhist Studies  Nicholas Trautz Textual Criticism and Ancient Hindu Texts  Signe Cohen The Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible as Compared with the Textual Criticism of Other Literatures  Emanuel Tov

About the Author :
Karin Finsterbusch, Dr. theol. (1994), University of Heidelberg, is Professor of Old Testament Studies at the University of Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU). She has published on the Hebrew Bible, its textual criticism, Second Temple Judaism, Early Christianity, and the text of the Septuagint and Hebrew Bible. Russell E. Fuller, PhD (1988, Harvard University), is professor of Hebrew Bible in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of San Diego. He is a member of the international team of editors for the Dead Sea Scrolls. Armin Lange is professor of Second Temple Judaism and Antisemitism Studies at the University of Vienna, a member of the international team editing the Dead Sea Scrolls, and a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. He has published on the Hebrew Bible, its textual criticism, Second Temple Judaism, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the religious history of antisemitism. Jason K. Driesbach, PhD (2015), Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is the author of 4QSamuel and the Text of Samuel (Brill, 2016). He has also contributed to the Historical Theological Lexicon of the Septuagint, vol. 1 (Mohr Siebeck, 2020).