Exploring the Isaiah Scrolls and Their Textual Variants
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Word Count
127,250 words, Guess
Page Count
509 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-139789004410596
- ISBN-109004410597
- Library of Congress Control Number2019032200
- OCLC Control Number1104055103
- Better World Books9789004410596
and 1 more
- Open LibraryOL38050501M
Classifications
- LCCBS1515.52.P365 2020
- LCCBS1515.52 .P365 2020
Description
"In Exploring the Isaiah Scrolls and Their Textual Variants, Donald W. Parry systematically presents, on a verse-by-verse basis, the variants of the Hebrew witnesses of Isaiah (the Masoretic Text and the twenty-one Isaiah Dead Sea Scrolls) and briefly discusses why each variant exists. The Isaiah scrolls have greatly impacted our understanding of the textual history of the Bible, and in recent decades, Bible translation committees have incorporated a number of the variants into their translations; as such, the Isaiah scrolls are important for both academic and popular audiences. Variant characterizations include four categories: (a) accidental errors, e.g., dittography, haplography, metathesis, graphic similarity; (b) intentional changes by scribes and copyists; (c) synonymous readings; (d) scribes' stylistic approaches and conventions"--
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