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Textual Criticism of the Bible provides a starting point for the study of both Old and New Testament textual criticism. In this book, you will be introduced to the world of biblical manuscripts and learn how scholars analyze and evaluate all of that textual data to bring us copies of the Bible in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek that can be used for translating the Bible into modern languages. Textual...

in the Hebrew Vorlage that stands behind the Septuagint.57 Thus, rather than deciding which version of Jeremiah is “right,” textual critics should try to determine the final form from which the Septuagint developed and the final form from which the Masoretic Text (and thus, the English Bible) developed. This goal is similar to reconstructing the Ausgangtext since both focus on finding the text that gave rise to the known textual variants. Textual criticism
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