Jeremiah as Collection: Scrolls, Sheets, and the Problem of Textual Arrangement
The variations in the textual history of Jeremiah's Oracles against the Nations have presented scholarship with a perennial puzzle. In addressing these variants, modern scholarship has consistently assumed that one of the versions must be original and the other a revision. In this study, I prop...
| Published in: | The catholic biblical quarterly |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Catholic Biblical Association of America
[2018]
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| In: |
The catholic biblical quarterly
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Jeremiah
/ Text history
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| IxTheo Classification: | HB Old Testament |
| Further subjects: | B
Textual Criticism
B colophon B Fischer, Georg B JEREMIAH (Biblical prophet) B Bible Versions, Catholic B Jeremiah B scroll B COLOPHONS B sheet B Book History B Oracles against the Nations B Papyrus |
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| Summary: | The variations in the textual history of Jeremiah's Oracles against the Nations have presented scholarship with a perennial puzzle. In addressing these variants, modern scholarship has consistently assumed that one of the versions must be original and the other a revision. In this study, I propose an alternate explanation. Drawing on considerations of material culture, comparative evidence, and insights from the field of book history, I suggest that the Jeremiah traditions existed in the early Persian period as an only partially ordered collection rather than a linear book. Rather than one version being original and the other an editorial rearrangement, both the LXX and the MT represent independent organizations of this collection. |
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| ISSN: | 2163-2529 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The catholic biblical quarterly
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/cbq.2018.0001 |