The Qumran manuscripts of Lamentations : a text-critical study / / by Gideon R. Kotzé.

• Superior document: Studia Semitica Neerlandica, v. 61
• Author: Kotzé, Gideon R.
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Studia Semitica Neerlandica ; 61.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (221 p.)
• Notes: Revised version of author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Stellenbosch, 2010.

In The Qumran Manuscripts of Lamentations: A Text-Critical Study , the first large-scale investigation of the topic, Gideon Kotzé establishes how the four Lamentations manuscripts from Qumran present the content of the biblical book. Kotzé takes as his point of departure the contributions of the Dead Sea scrolls to the discipline of Old Testament textual criticism and treats the Qumran manuscripts of Lamentations, the Masoretic text and the ancient translations as witnesses to the content of the book and not only as witnesses to earlier forms of its Hebrew text. By focusing the analysis on variant readings and textual difficulties, the study arrives at a better understanding of these manuscripts as representatives of both the text and the content of Lamentations.

Table of Contents

Front Matter / Gideon R. Kotzé -- Introduction / Gideon R. Kotzé -- Transcriptions of the Qumran Manuscripts of Lamentations with an Overview of Their Formal Characteristics / Gideon R. Kotzé -- Text-Critical Analyses of the Wording of Lam 1 as Witnessed to by 4QLam / Gideon R. Kotzé -- Text-Critical Analyses of the Wording of Lam 4 as Witnessed to by 5QLama and 5QLamb / Gideon R. Kotzé -- Text-Critical Analyses of the Wording of Lam 5 as it is Witnessed to by 5QLama / Gideon R. Kotzé -- Conclusions / Gideon R. Kotzé -- Bibliography / Gideon R. Kotzé -- Indexes / Gideon R. Kotzé.