God's word omitted : : omissions in the transmission of the Hebrew Bible / / Juha Pakkala.

• Superior document: Forschungen zur Religion und Literatur des Alten und Neuen Testaments ; v. 251
• Author: Pakkala, Juha.
• Place / Publishing House: Göttingen : : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht,, [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English; German
• Series: Forschungen zur Religion und Literatur des Alten und Neuen Testaments ; 251. Heft.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (420 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

HauptbeschreibungThe book investigates omissions in the textual transmission of the Hebrew scriptures. Literary criticism (Literarkritik) commonly assumes that later editors only expanded the older text; omissions would not have taken place. This axiom is implied in analyses and introductions to the methodology. The book investigates the validity of the axiom. After a review of literature, books of methodology, and past research, texts from different parts of the Hebrew Bible are discussed with this aim in view. The investigated texts consist of examples which preserve documented evidence abou

Table of Contents

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Table of Contents; Body; Acknowledgements; Omissions the Hebrew Bible?; Traditional Conceptions in Biblical Studies; Earlier Research; Other Approaches Share the Same Conceptions; Implementation of Literary Criticism; Text-Critical Scholarship; Omissions in the New Testament; The Evidence of the Dead Sea Scrolls; The Epic of Gilgamesh as a Witness to Editorial Processes; Assyrian Annals; Challenges to Literary Criticism; What is Authoritative Scripture?; Claimed and Acknowledged Authority; Types of Authoritativeness of Scripture

Geographical, Social and Other DifferencesVarious Levels of Authoritativeness; Changed Authoritativeness; Authoritative Texts: Discussion; Methodological Clarifications; Summary; Conservative Editorial Processes in the Samaritan Pentateuch; Expansions in the Samaritan Pentateuch; Small Omission, Large Impact-The Location of Sacrifices; The Place of Sacrifice-Gerizim or Ebal?; An Addition That Resulted in an Omission; An Omission of One Letter-Many Gods Omitted; Summary; The Conservative Editorial Processes in the Book of Jeremiah; Several Additions in the MT of Jer 25:1-14

An Omission in Jer 32:5/Jer 39:5 LXXSummary; The Development of Laws in the Pentateuch; Deuteronomy and the Covenant Code; The Use of the Older Laws as Sources for Deuteronomy; Violated Virgins; On the Right Conduct in Court; Discussion: The Covenant Code and Deuteronomy; Deuteronomy and the Holiness Code (Lev 17-26); The Festival of Weeks; The Festival of Booths; Discussion: Deuteronomy and the Holiness Code; The Development of the Passover Law; Discussion: The Passover Law; Jubilees; Introduction; The Sixth and the Seventh Day of Creation; Cain in Jubilees 4:7-10 and Genesis 4

I Will not Marry a CanaaniteJubilees as a Witness to the Editorial Processes; The Temple Scroll; Introduction; New Moon of the First Month Festival; The Passover in the Temple Scroll; Pagan Mourning Practices; The Idol Worshippers in Temple Scroll 55:15-21; Prophets and Dreamers of Dreams; The Temple Scroll as a Witness to the Editorial Processes; Omission as a Means of Ideological or Theological Censorship; Introduction; The Omission of Polytheistic Conceptions in Deut 32:8-9; The Omission of Polytheistic Conceptions in Deut 32:43; Theological Corrections-Can God Be Seen?

An Addition That Created an Omission in Exod 24:9-11Shiloh or Shechem in Josh 24:1, 25; The Omission of a Statue of Yhwh in Josh 24:26; A Small Omission with a Large Impact; Theological Omissions in the Hanna Story in 1 Sam 1-2; The Watering Down of a Water Pouring Ritual; Gods of the Philistines Changed to Idols in 2 Sam 5:21; Asherah Omitted in 2 Sam 5:24; References to the Temple of Yhwh Omitted in 2 Samuel; The Temple of Yhwh in Hebron Omitted in 2 Sam 15:8; Uzzah is Killed before God in 2 Sam 6:6-7; The Omission of References to the Sun-god

Was a Reference to the Temple of Yhwh in Samaria Omitted?