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proved to exist before the first half of the second century C.E.,^18 based on the variants in the early manuscript evidence.^19 ...

by Cross that the bulk of the Qumran biblical scrolls that display full orthography and expansionistic tendencies, including the ...

in determining the existence of errors, the classification of variants as genetic, and typi- cally corruptions, has been avoided ...

In order to reconstruct the formative period of the scriptures, most scholars are required to hypothesise various stages of prog ...

In line with Talmon’s description of the biblical text in transmission, Tigay charts four stages in the development towards an a ...

three families, identified with the localities of Palestine, Egypt and Babylon.^33 The proc- ess of stabilisation developed only ...

Tov agrees that the emergence of a relatively fixed text was beginning to emerge by the middle of the Second Temple period in Pa ...

Hever).^41 These scrolls are identified not only by their particular textual character, but also by their large format, high num ...

According to E. Ulrich, there is no evidence that suggests that there was a concern for the standardisation of the text in the m ...

that these texts represent.^47 Instead, competing literary editions, comprised of a literary unit, whether a book, story, narrat ...

preference for one copy of a text over another. This is the only way that we can ensure our investigation begins free of the ana ...

ment.^52 While this approach is certainly careful, it may on occasion be overcautious. In the present analysis we will prefer th ...

quences.^54 Alternative readings, on the other hand, are divided into five subcategories: linguistic-stylistic changes, lexical ...

ing of a root; roots and phrases common to the language of the scribe; interchanges of synonymous readings; changes in content a ...

Variants in Comparative Approaches to Biblical Texts Both Clines and Young have conducted recent studies on the transmission of ...

The advantages of this method are that the statistical evidence is easy for the scholar to represent and for the reader to inter ...

An important aspect of Polak’s analysis is that he delineates between variants that are similar in nature but different in lengt ...

additional category representing lexical interchange is subdivided into interchanges of verbs, and other words (nouns, adjective ...

agrees with other features of systems we have already reviewed above, specifically the delineation between expansive or clarifyi ...

tirely, or two or more lines are transposed or reordered.^74 In particular instances some re- gional variations can be grouped a ...