The open book and the sealed book : Jeremiah 32 and its Hebrew and Greek recensions
"This monograph arose in part from a dissatisfaction with the extent to which literary considerations have tended to control the outcome of text-critical work in the Hebrew Bible. The fact that we have just one text to work with (the Masoretic Text) makes this inevitable, but it seemed desirable to me to make more of an effort to objectify the process, and to this end I have followed the textlinguistic contours of one feature of Jeremiah—its markers of direct discourse—in the hope that this will provide a baseline for text-critical sightings. Yet Jeremiah is unique in the Hebrew Bible in that, while it too gives us but one text, it also holds out for us the promise of a quite different text sealed up within the Septuagint. The desire to find out whether this sealed book could be opened up to be set alongside the open book provided the second and main impetus to the present study." -- Preface
Print Book, English, ©2002
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