Sôfer mahîr : essays in honour of Adrian Schenker / / offered by editors of Biblia Hebraica quinta ; edited by Yohanan A.P. Goldman, Arie van der Kooij, and Richard D. Weis.

• Superior document: Supplements to Vetus Testamentum, v. 110
• TeilnehmendeR: Schenker, Adrian, 1939-; Goldman, Yohanan, 1952-; Kooij, Arie van der, 1945-; Weis, Richard D.
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Supplements to Vetus Testamentum ; v. 110.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (319 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

The essays that comprise this volume in honor of Adrian Schenker address a variety of issues and topics in the field of textual criticism and the textual history of the Hebrew Bible. Except for the Book of Kings, the contributors are editors of individual Biblical books for the new Biblia Hebraica Quinta . The topics of the essays range from assessments of the overall textual situation for a particular book to investigations of translation technique to studies of particularities in the Leningrad Codex and its Masorah. Most books of the Hebrew Scriptures are treated in one of the essays.

Table of Contents

Reflections on the text of the book of Job / Robert Althann -- Septuagint and Peshitta in the apparatus to Canticles in Biblia Hebraica quinta / Piet B. Dirksen -- The genuine text of Judges / Natalio Fernández Marcos -- Some difficulties encountered by ancient translators / Anthony Gelston -- Notes from a reading of Daniel 2 / Agustinus Gianto -- Le texte massorétique de Qohélet, témoin d'un compromis théologique entre les "disciples des sages" (Qoh 7,23-24; 8,1; 7,19) / Yohanan A.P. Goldman -- Textual witnesses and sacrificial terminology in Leviticus 1-7 / Innocent Himbaza -- Le Grec ancien des livres des Règnes : une histoire et un bilan de la recherche / Philippe Hugo -- The text of Isaiah and its early witnesses in Hebrew / Arie van der Kooij -- The Ezekiel text / Johan Lust -- How BHQ differs from BHS in the book of Ezra-Nehemiah / David Marcus -- A comparative study of the Masorah magna and parva of the book of Deuteronomy as attested in the Leningrad and Madrid M1 manuscripts / Carmel McCarthy -- A diplomatic edition of the Psalter? / Gerard J. Norton -- Die Textüberlieferung des Buches Numeri am Beispiel der Bileamerzählung / Martin Rösel -- Some reflections on the use of paseq in the book of Esther / Magne Sæbø -- Der ursprüngliche Text und die poetische Struktur des ersten Klageliedes (Klgl 1) : Textkritik und Strukturanalyse im Zwiegespräch / Rolf Schäfer -- Lexical ignorance and the ancient versions of Proverbs / Jan de Waard -- The textual situation in the book of Jeremiah / Richard D. Weis.