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Essays from experts on the textual criticism of the Hebrew Bible

The Hebrew Bible is universally read and studied in its Tiberian form, and this collection of essays evaluates the wealth of information contained within Tiberian masoretic pointing. Contributors consider the degree to which the masoretic sigla of vocalization and accentuation may have preserved ancient traditions of early biblical Hebrew pronunciation, the intricacies of the accentual systems, the inter-relationship of the accentuation and the vocalization, and little-known instances of the use of the masoretic vowels and accents in the history of exegesis.

Features

• Focus on grammatical details and lexical distinctions in the Tiberian text
• An exploration of early interpretations of difficult expressions
• A study of the directions to the oral performance of the text

Jan Joosten is Regius Professor of Hebrew in the Faculty of Theology and Religion at the University of Oxford. He is the author of People and Land in the Holiness Code: An Exegetical Study of the Ideational Framework of the Law in Leviticus 17–26 (2014) and coeditor of Septuagint Vocabulary: Pre-history, Usage, Reception (2011).

Daniel J. Crowther is a research affiliate working on Psalms 101–150 as part of the Critical Editions of the Hebrew Bible project at the University of Oxford. He is coeditor of Reading the Bible in Islamic Context (2018).