The contributors of this volume discuss questions that arise regarding the connection between philology and textual criticism: How can philological study guide the textual critic and how does textual criticism come to the aid of the philologist? Can philology justify conjectural emendations, and, if so, on what conditions? Do philological hypotheses have a place in a text-critical apparatus or commentary? In addition to the theoretical discussion, the contributions analyze case studies that further illustrate the principles at issue.
The objective of the present volume is to put the connection between philology and textual criticism on the agenda once again. It addresses such questions as in what way philological study guides the textual critic and how textual criticism comes to the aid of the philologist; whether philology and textual criticism are necessarily linked, or the connections between them merely accidental; whether philology can justify conjectural emendations, and, if so, on what conditions; and inquires after the place of philological hypotheses in a text-critical apparatus or commentary. The contributors discuss these theoretical questions and analyze case studies illustrating the principles at issue.
Table of contents:
Richard D. Weis: The Intersection of Philology and Textual Criticism in
Biblia Hebraica Quinta. Background, Theory, and Practice -
Abraham Tal: Some Reflections on the Textual Traditions of the Samaritan Pentateuch -
Jan Joosten: Post-Biblical Hebrew as a Controlling Factor in the Arbitration between Variant Readings -
Viktor Golinets: Considerations on Questions Philology Cannot Solv e While Reconstructing the Text of the Hebrew Bible -
Andrés Piquer Otero: Between the Archaic and the Literary. The 'Narrative' Infinitive Clause in the Text(s) of the Bible -
Adrian Schenker: L'incidence de la critique textuelle sur le lexique hébreu biblique. Les cas de שָׁלםֵ , Gn 33,18; והְחֶ רֱִים , Is 11,15; 1 ,ח רְֶמיִ R 20,42 -
Noam Mizrahi: Text, Language, and Legal Interpretation. The Case of Exod 12:9 -
Innocent Himbaza: Textual Readings and Challenge of Biblical Philology. Some Cases in Isaiah and Leviticus
