The Text of the Old Testament: An Introduction to the Biblia Hebraica (Biblia.com)

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Ernst Würthwein’s introduction to the Biblia Hebraica has long served as a textbook for generations of students interested in the history of the Old Testament text and the problems of textual criticism. From its first appearance in 1952 to the fifth German edition in 1988, the book was faithfully updated by Würthwein himself in light of new research. But now a new edition of “Würthwein” is due. ...

(70 C.E. to 7th century C.E.) lasted from the destruction of the Second Temple to the suppression of the second Jewish rebellion. It was marked by a further standardization of the Masoretic consonantal text and its protection by the Pharisaic rabbinic trend of Judaism. Meanwhile debates with early Christianity over its claim for the LXX to be a valid text of the Scriptures strengthened Judaism’s reliance on the consonantal text of the Hebrew Bible and efforts to produce its own Greek versions (see

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