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The Scribes of Proto-MT and Their Practices

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Biblical Criticism

Published December 8, 2017

  1. These rabbinic texts do not say explicitly that the scribes they discuss are the ones that produced MT, but since the rabbinic literature only quotes from MT, its references pertain only to the scribes of MT.

  2. See Emanuel Tov, Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible, 30, n. 16.

  3.  See Emanuel Tov, Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible, 30.

  4.  Here and elsewhere the Babylonian Talmud preserved many valuable ancient customs about scribal traditions.

  5.  See y. Ta‛an. 4.68a and parallels, and see the discussion in Emanuel Tov, “The Text of the Hebrew/Aramaic and Greek Bible Used in the Ancient Synagogues,” in idem, Hebrew Bible, Greek Bible, and Qumran: Collected Essays, TSAJ 121 (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2008), 171–88.

  6.  Ed. Finkelstein (New York/Jerusalem: Jewish Theological Seminary, 1969), 211.

Prof. Emanuel Tov is J. L. Magnes Professor of Bible (emeritus) in the Dept. of Bible at the Hebrew University, where he received his Ph.D. in Biblical Studies. He was the editor of 33 volumes of Discoveries in the Judean Desert. Among his… Read More
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