A plague of texts? : a text-critical study of the so-called 'plagues narrative' in Exodus 7:14-11:10 / / by Bénédicte Lemmelijn.

• Superior document: Oudtestamentische studiën = Old Testament studies, v. 56
• Author: Lemmelijn, Bénédicte, 1969-
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: Oudtestamentische studiën ; d. 56.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (396 p.)
• Notes: Revision of author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, 1996 under title: Het verhaal van de 'Plagen in Egypte' (Exodus 7,14-11,10) : een onderzoek naar het ontstaan en de compositie van een Pentateuchtraditie.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. [359]-371) and indexes.
• ISBN: 1282400703; 9786612400704; 9047425820
• ISSN: 0169-7226
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: by Bénédicte Lemmelijn.

Prior to any attempt to study a text at the literary level, the textual material itself has to be carefully established. It is for this reason that the present volume is devoted to a detailed text-critical study of the 'physical' text of the ‘Plagues Narrative’ in Exod. 7:14–11:10. In the first chapter, the author formulates a number of prolegomena relating to textual criticism as a discipline, the extant textual material, the terminology employed and the methodological model that serves as the basis of this study. In the second chapter, data provided by the various textual forms of the ‘Plagues Narrative’ in Exod. 7:14–11:10, namely MT, LXX, SamP, 4QpaleoExodᵐ, 4QpaleoGen-Exodᶩ, 2QExodᵃ, 4QExodᶜ, 4QGen-Exodᵃ and 4QExodʲ, are registered and described. The extant textual versions themselves are presented in the form of a synopsis, added as an appendix to this book. The third and final chapter offers the text-critical evaluation of all 'text-relevant' variants.