Jewish Concepts of Scripture

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264 Marc Zvi Brettler


1998), 40 – 46; and Emanuel Tov, Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible, 2nd rev. ed.
(Minneapolis: Fortress, 2001).



  1. See Tov, Textual Criticism, 187.

  2. Greenberg, Understanding Exodus, 4.

  3. Ibid.; Greenberg, “Ancient Versions,” in Studies in the Bible and Jewish
    Th ought, 218, 220 – 21; Greenberg, review of Critique textuelle de L’Ancien Testament,
    by Dominique Barthélemy, JQR 78 (1987): 140.

  4. See the eighth principle of Maimonides, in Isadore Twersky, A Maimonides
    Reader (New York: Behrman, 1972), 420 – 21.

  5. Greenberg, Introduction to Hebrew (Englewood Cliff s, NJ: Prentice-Hall,
    1965).

  6. Greenberg, “On Ezekiel’s Dumbness,” JBL 77 (1958): 102.

  7. Th e (pejorative) use of this term was popularized by the literary scholar
    Robert Alter.

  8. Greenberg, Understanding Exodus, 1, 61, 66, 107, 121, 192; Greenberg, “Th e
    Th ematic Unity of Exodus iii – xi,” in Papers of the Fourth World Congress of Jewish
    Studies (Jerusalem: World Union of Jewish Studies, 1967), 154. For discussion and
    literature, see Mark G. Brett, Biblical Criticism in Crisis? Th e Impact of the Canoni-
    cal Approach on Old Testament Studies (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
    1991); and Paul R. Noble, Th e Canonical Approach: A Critical Reconstruction of the
    Hermeneutics of Brevard S. Childs, Biblical Interpretation 16 (Leiden, Netherlands:
    Brill, 1995). Oddly, Noble never mentions Greenberg, and Brett mentions him
    only once.

  9. Greenberg, “Th e Vision of Jerusalem in Ezekiel 8 – 11: A Holistic Interpreta-
    tion,” in Th e Divine Helmsman: Studies in God’s Control of Human Events Presented
    to Lou H. Silberman, ed. James L. Crenshaw and Samuel Sandmel (New York: Ktav,
    1980), 141.

  10. Ibid., 145, 147; Greenberg, Anchor Bible: Ezekiel, 1:218; Greenberg, “MSRT
    HBRYT, ‘Th e Obligation of the Covenant,’ in Ezekiel 20:37,” in Th e Word of the Lord
    Shall Go Forth: Essays in Honor of David Noel Freedman in Celebration of His Six-
    tieth Birthday, ed. C. L. Meyers and M. O’Connor (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns,
    1983), 44.

  11. Greenberg, “Vision of Jerusalem in Ezekiel 8 – 11,” 145 – 46.

  12. Ibid., 149; Greenberg, Anchor Bible: Ezekiel, 1:21.

  13. Greenberg, “What Are Valid Criteria for Determining Inauthentic Matter
    in Ezekiel?,” in Ezekiel and His Book, ed. J. Lust, BETL 74 (Leuven: Leuven Univer-
    sity Press, 1986), 135.

  14. Greenberg, “Ezekiel 16: A Panorama of Passions,” in Love and Death in
    the Ancient Near East: Essays in Honor of Marvin H. Pope, ed. John H. Marks and
    Robert M. Good (Guilford, CT: Four Quarters, 1987), 143; Greenberg, “A Faith-ful
    Critical Interpretation of the Bible,” 211.

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