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IIn The Qumran Manuscripts of Lamentations: A Text-Critical Study, the first large-scale investigation of the topic, Gideon Kotzé establishes how the four Lamentations manuscripts from Qumran present the content of the biblical book. Kotzé takes as his point of departure the contributions of the Dead Sea scrolls to the discipline of Old Testament textual criticism and treats the Qumran manuscripts of Lamentations, the Masoretic text and the ancient translations as witnesses to the content of the book and not only as witnesses to earlier forms of its Hebrew text. By focusing the analysis on variant readings and textual difficulties, the study arrives at a better understanding of these manuscripts as representatives of both the text and the content of Lamentations.
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The Qumran Manuscripts of Lamentations
Studia Semitica Neerlandica Editor-in-Chief
Prof. dr. K.A.D. Smelik Editorial Board
Prof. dr. P.C. Beentjes, Prof. dr. W.J. van Bekkum, Dr. W.C. Delsman, Prof. dr. H. Gzella, Prof. dr. W. Th. van Peursen, Prof. dr. J. Van Steenbergen, Prof. dr. E. Talstra, Prof. dr. M. Tanret VOLUME 61
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The Qumran Manuscripts of Lamentations A Text-Critical Study
By
Gideon R. Kotzé
LEIDEN • BOSTON 2013
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Kotzé, Gideon R. The Qumran manuscripts of Lamentations : a text-critical study / by Gideon R. Kotzé. pages cm. – (Studia Semitica Neerlandica, ISSN 0081-6914 ; volume 61) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-90-04-23684-4 (hardback : alk. paper) – ISBN 978-90-04-24209-8 (e-book) 1. Dead Sea scrolls. 2. Bible. Lamentations–Criticism, interpretation, etc. I. Title. BM487.K64 2013 224'.30446–dc23 2013021987
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CONTENTS
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii Abbreviations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix 1
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Old Testament Textual Criticism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Contributions of the Dead Sea Scrolls to Old Testament Textual Criticism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Research Topic of the Study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 The Aims and Text-Critical Approach of the Study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .