Textual Criticism - Recovering the Text of the Hebrew Bible

Klappentext Professor McCarter here offers an introduction to the art and science of textual criticism for students of the Hebrew Bible. His emphasis is on the work involved in the critical evaluation of a given portion of text. His explanations of critical principles are illustrated with carefully selected examples of the textual phenomena discussed-in Hebrew, with English translations. The book concludes with unique appendices on several kinds of essential but hard-to-find information. Zusammenfassung An introduction to the goals and methods of textual criticism of the Bible! intended to give students of Hebrew the necessary tools to study the text. The principles of textual criticism are explained in terms of both their usefulness and their limitations! and are illustrated with examples from the Bible.

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• Authors: P Kyle McCarter, P. Kyle McCarter
• Assisted by: P Kyle McCarter (Editor), P. Kyle McCarter (Editor), Gene M Tucker (Editor), Gene M. Tucker (Editor)
• Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Pub
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.1986
• EAN: 9780800604714
• ISBN: 978-0-8006-0471-4
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 222 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Guides to Biblical Scholarship
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Judaism