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THE EXACT TRANSMISSION OF TEXTS IN THE FIRST MILLENNIUM B.C.E. AN EXAMINATION OF THE CUNEIFORM EVIDENCE FROM MESOPOTAMIA AND THE ...

ABSTRACT Certain ancient Near Eastern texts develop over time towards a reasonably stable state of transmission. However, the de ...

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vii^ Hermeneutic Variants The Quantification of Texts CHAPTER 3: INTRODUCTION TO THE CUNEIFORM TEXTS Defining Parallel Texts Th ...

viii^ List of Abbreviations ACh C. Virolleaud, L’Astrologie Chaldéene AfO Archiv für Orientforschung (24 = H. Hunger, MUL.APIN) ...

ix^ KAO A. Jeremias, H. Winckler and E.F. Weidner, Kampfe um dem alten Orient KBo Keilschrifttexte aus Boghazköi KTS 1 J. Lewy, ...

x^ Acknowledgements During the course of my research I have come into contact with several scholars, both established and emergi ...

xi^ I am indebted to the Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the Center’s director Professor Steven E. Fassb ...

(^) CHAPTER 1 – INTRODUCTION The Hebrew Scriptures and other ancient Near Eastern Traditions It has been said that the textual h ...

How might we understand the development of the Hebrew scriptures in respect of other textual traditions in the ancient Near East ...

tems will be attempted to frame an analysis that works across different languages, scripts and media. Textual Criticism, Its Obj ...

in effect became the ‘copy-text’ of the Hebrew Bible as it is reflected in all of the medie- val manuscript evidence.^10 In the ...

copies of ancient texts are frequently presented in translation as single composite ver- sions. The case is similar with the bul ...

The implications of thinking in terms of ‘original’ forms of the biblical texts, and ‘copy- texts’ of the scriptures, were the t ...

editions or ‘standardised’ copy-texts, but rather to approach the question of textual stabi- lisation from a more broadly compar ...