Textual Criticism and the Ontology of Literature in Early Judaism

James Nati, Ph.D. (2019), Yale University, is currently Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament at the Santa Clara University Jesuit School of Theology and the Graduate Theological Union.

• AcknowledgementsList of FiguresAbbreviationsIntroduction1 Textual Criticism without Originals2 Difference & Development3 Textual Variants and Authorization4 Construing Biblical Books1 Textual Pluriformity, Textual Development, and Textual Criticism after Qumran1 Introduction2 Accounting for Pluriformity after Qumran3 Higher and Lower Criticism4 What Is Textual Criticism?5 The Ontology of Biblical Literature6 The Influence of Canon7 Biblical and Non-biblical Texts8 Excursus: What Do the Scrolls Represent?9 The Serekh2 Textual Pluriformity in the Serekh Tradition1 Introduction2 The Manuscripts3 The Text4 Pluriformity in S, and Text- and Redaction-Criticism3 The Development of the Serekh Tradition1 Introduction2 Past Treatments3 The Development of the Serekh4 Conclusions4 Wisdom, Torah, and Textual Identity1 Introduction2 Wisdom and Torah at Qumran3 The Serekh and Its Authority4 Summary and Conclusions5 What Were Biblical Books?1 Unfinalized Texts & The Rolling Corpus2 Literary Editions & Rewritten Scripture3 Ontology and the Individuation of Literary Works4 What Was the Serekh ha-Yaḥad?5 What is Textual Criticism?Epilogue: Editing Biblical & Early Jewish TextsAppendix: Synoptic View of the SerekhBibliographyIndex of PassagesIndex of Modern Authors