The Oxford Handbook of Textual Criticism of the Bible

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The Oxford Handbook of Textual Criticism of the Bible is written by Sidnie White Crawford and published by Oxford University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0197581315 (ISBN 10) and 9780197581315 (ISBN 13).

This handbook provides an overview of the disciplines of textual criticism of the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament as practiced in the twenty-first century. The first part deals with overarching issues like the formation of the Jewish and Christian canons; philosophical presuppositions in the methods and goals of textual criticism; the complex relationship between literary criticism and textual criticism; and how the related fields of Book History, New/Material Philology, and paratextual criticism both pose challenges and enrich traditional biblical textual criticism. The second part is concerned with the textual criticism of the books of the Hebrew Bible, a field which has undergone a paradigm shift in the seventy-five years since the discovery of the Judean Desert scrolls. The chapters concern the history of textual criticism, the bodies of textual evidence and their importance for the text-critical task, the three critical edition projects now underway, and the explosion of digital tools in the twenty-first century. This part also includes chapters on the Deuterocanon and Septuagint textual criticism. The final part concerns the textual criticism of the New Testament and provides chapters concerned with the history of the discipline, the Greek manuscripts and the indirect evidence of the text in early versions and citations, as well as past and current methods for evaluating this evidence including the Coherence-Based Genealogical Method (CBGM) which is used to produce the Editio Critica Maior and Nestle-Aland/UBS editions. Notably, this handbook features two chapters devoted to the teaching of textual criticism of the Hebrew Bible and New Testament