Evidence of Editing : Growth and Change of Texts in the Hebrew Bible.

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Added Detail in the Samaritan Version of Leviticus 17:4 concerning the Sacrifices -- 2. An Expansion to the Passover Law: Leviticus 23:5-8 and Numbers 28:16-25 Compared -- 3. From Glosses to Larger Expansions: The Masoretic Text of Numbers 13-14 Compared with the Septuagint and the Samaritan Pentateuch -- 4. Late Additions or Editorial Shortening? Joshua 20 in the Masoretic Text and the Septuagint -- 5. A Qumran Manuscript as Evidence of an Addition in the Masoretic Text: Judges 6:7-10 -- 6. A Secondary Omission in the Masoretic Text of 1 Samuel 10:1 -- 7. An Addition in a Qumran Manuscript as Evidence for the Continuous Growth of the Text: 1 Samuel 10:27-11:1 -- 8. The Septuagint Provides Evidence of a Late Addition in the Masoretic Text: 1 Kings 6:11-4 -- 9. From Small Additions to Rewriting in the Story about the Burning of Jerusalem -- 10. Evidence for the Literary Growth of Gedaliah's Murder in 2 Kings 25:25, Jeremiah 41:1-3 MT, and Jeremiah 48:1-3 LXX -- 11. Techniques of Rewriting Prophecy: Jeremiah 48 Compared with Isaiah 15-16 -- 12. Evidence of Psalm Composition: Psalm 108 as a Secondary Compilation of Other Psalm Texts -- 13. Revision of Ezra-Nehemiah in 1 Esdras: Expansions, Omissions, and Rewritings -- 14. Evidence for Large Additions in the Book of Esther -- 15. Evidence for Expansions, Relocations, Omissions, and Rewriting: Joash the King and Jehoiada the Priest in 2 Kings 11-12 and 2 Chronicles 22-24 -- Conclusions: Empirical Evidence of Editorial Processes -- Bibliography -- Index of Sources -- Index of Authors.

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