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OT620: Old Testament Textual Criticism

BOOK LIST

Primary Sources

  • Elliger, K., and W. Rudolph, et al., eds. Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia. 5th ed. Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 1967/77, 1997.
  • The available volumes in the Biblia Hebraica Quinta series (German Bible Society; 2004–present).
  • Rahlfs, Alfred, ed. Septuaginta Id est Vetus Testamentum graece iuxta LXX interpres. 2 vols. in one. Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 1935, 1979, 2004, 2007 (Rahlfs-Hanhart edition).
  • The available volumes in the Septuaginta Vetus Testamentum Graecum series (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht; 1935–present)

Secondary Sources (*required)

  • Carr, David M. The Formation of the Hebrew Bible: A New Reconstruction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.
  • *Lange, Armin and Emanuel Tov. Textual History of the Bible: The Hebrew Bible: Volume 1A Overview Articles. Leiden: Brill, 2016.
  • Rollston, Christopher A. Writing and Literacy in the World of Ancient Israel: Epigraphic Evidence from the Iron Age. Atlanta: SBL Press, 2010.
  • Schniedewind, William M. How the Bible Became a Book: The Textualization of Ancient Israel. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
  • Schniedewind, William M. The Finger of the Scribe: How Scribes Learned to Write the Bible. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019.
  • Toorn, Karel Van Der. Scribal Culture and the Making of the Hebrew Bible. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007.

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