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Loading... Multiple Originals: New Approaches to Hebrew Bible Textual Criticism (Text-Critical Studies)by Gary D. Martin
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Martin's book contains several chapters that could be effectively used in classes on OT text criticism, but it will not substitute for other more traditional introductions to the field. The book does highlight the possibility of intentional multivalence that an author may have occasionally used as he wrote his work. However, obviously such cases are extremely rare. Perhaps his work could have been more appropriately titled "Occasional Cases of Multivalence: New Approaches to Fine-Tuning Hebrew Bible Textual Criticism." Belongs to Series
Textual criticism is in a period of change, as it seeks to account for an ever-growing body of textual data as well as the development of new methodologies. Since the older methodologies cannot simply be modified to meet our present needs, Multiple Originals seeks to build bridges between methods of traditional textual criticism and those of orality and formulaic analysis. Examining practices of textual criticism across a wide range of texts and disciplines, this book challenges the assumption that there can be only one correct reading and argues for the presence of multivalences of both meaning and text. It demonstrates that in some cases multivalences were intended by the composer, while in other cases, during the periods from which our earliest extant manuscripts derive, they fell within the limits of variability acceptable to those who valued and transmitted those texts. No library descriptions found. |
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