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- Hermeneutic Variants
- The Quantification of Texts
- CHAPTER 3: INTRODUCTION TO THE CUNEIFORM TEXTS
- Defining Parallel Texts
- The Historical Setting
- The History of the Collections
- Selecting the Texts for Analysis
- CHAPTER 4 – ENŪMA ANU ENLIL TABLET
- The Text
- Description of the Sources The Tablets.................................................................................................................... 61
- List of Variants Between the Parallel Sources for EAE
- Discussion of the Variants
- Orthographic Variants
- Orthographic (linguistic) Variants
- Stylistic Variants (Type 2)
- Hermeneutic Variants
- CHAPTER 5 – MUL.APIN
- The Text
- Description of the Sources iii
- List of Variants Between the Parallel Sources for MUL.APIN
- Discussion of Variants
- Orthographic Variants
- Orthographic (linguistic) Variants
- Stylistic Variants (Type 1)
- Stylistic Variants (Type 2)
- Stylistic Variants (Type 3)
- Hermeneutic Variants
- CHAPTER 6 – THE LAWS OF HAMMURABI
- Description of the Sources The Tablets.................................................................................................................. 1 60
- List of Variants Between the Parallel Sources for the Laws of Hammurabi
- Discussion of Variants
- Orthographic Variants
- Orthographic (linguistic) Variants
- Stylistic Variants (Type 1)
- Stylistic Variants (Type 2)
- Hermeneutic Variants
- CHAPTER 7 – GILGAMESH XI iv
- Description of the Sources The Tablets.................................................................................................................. 2 11
- List of Variants Between the Parallel Sources for Gilgamesh XI
- Discussion of Variants
- Orthographic Variants
- Orthographic (linguistic) Variants
- Stylistic Variants (Type 1)
- Stylistic Variants (Type 2)
- Stylistic Variants (Type 3)
- Hermeneutic Variants
- CHAPTER 8 – MĪS PÎ
- Description of the Sources The Tablets.................................................................................................................. 2 71
- List of Variants Between the Parallel Sources for Mīs Pî
- Discussion of Variants
- Orthographic Variants
- Orthographic (linguistic) Variants
- Stylistic Variants (Type 1) v
- Stylistic Variants (Type 2)
- CHAPTER 9 – THE TORAH SCROLLS FROM THE DEAD SEA AREA
- Approaching the Evidence of the Dead Sea Scrolls
- The Archaeology of Khirbet Qumran The Sites...................................................................................................................... 302
- The Connection Between Khirbet Qumran and the Scrolls Found Nearby
- The Archaeology of the Masada Scrolls
- List of Variants From the MT Torah Scrolls From Qumran and Masada The Sources 3 13
- Discussion of Variants
- Orthographic Variants
- Orthographic (linguistic) Variants
- Stylistic Variants (Type 1)
- Stylistic Variants (Type 2)
- Stylistic Variants (Type 3)
- Hermeneutic Variants
- Approaching the Evidence of the Dead Sea Scrolls
- CHAPTER 10 – CONCLUSION
- Issues in the Statistical Analysis
- Concluding Remarks on the Cuneiform Sources
- EAE63 vi
- MUL.APIN
- The Laws of Hammurabi
- Gilgamesh XI
- Mīs Pî
- Concluding Remarks on The Dead Sea Torah Scrolls
- The Significance of Ritual Texts
- Bibliography
- Table 1 - EAE 63: Tablets Under Examination List of Tables
- Table 2 - Number of SU preserved in the Sources for EAE
- Table 3 - Variants in the Parallel Sources for EAE
- Table 4 - MUL.APIN: Tablets Under Examination
- Table 5 - Number of SU Preserved in the MUL.APIN Tablets
- Table 6 - Variants in the Parallel Sources for MUL.APIN
- Table 7 - Laws of Hammurabi: Tablets Under Examination
- Table 8 - Number of SU Preserved in the First Millennium Hammurabi Tablets
- Table 9 - Variants in the Parallel Sources for the Laws of Hammurabi
- Table 10 - First Millennium Sources for Gilgamesh XI Under Examination
- Table 11 - Number of SU Preserved in the First Millennium Gilgamesh XI Tablets
- Table 12 - Variants in the Parallel Sources for Gilgamesh XI
- Table 13 - Sources for mīs pî Under Examination
- Table 14 - Number of SU Preserved in the Sources for Mīs Pî
- Table 15 - Variants in the Parallel Sources for Mīs Pî
- Table 16 - Number of SU Preserved in the Torah Scrolls From the Dead Sea Area
- Table 17 - Variants From the MT in the Dead Sea Torah Scrolls
- Figure 1 - Average Variation Of All Sources List of Figures
- Figure 2 - Average Variation Including Nineveh Ritual Tablets and 'de Luxe' mss