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get back to thc original wording of thc text. In two hours, lay folks gct a very good fecl for what textual criticism is all about

•    Textual Criticism of thc Hebrew Bibie - Emanuel Tov. Em mamie I Tov is J. L. Magnes Professor of Bibie at Hebrew University, Jerusalem. He is editor-in-chief of the Dead Sea Scrolls publication project, & his publications include The Text-Critical Use of the Septuagint in Biblical Research (2nd ed. 1997), The Greek Minor Prophets Scroll from Na.hal .Hever (DJD, 1990), The Dead Sea Scrolls on Microfiche (1992-93), & The Greek & Hebrew Bibie: Collected Essays on the Septuagint (1999). Emmanuel Tov of He brew Unwersity

•    The Text of the Old Testament: An lntroduction to the Biblia Hehraica -Ernst Wurthwein. Translated by Erroll F. Rhodes. This book is ostensibh an introduction to Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartcnsia, a standard work giving the text of the Hebrew Bibie & a list of yariants & plausible emendations. It serves that function superbly, but it is also one of the best books ever written on the textual criticism of the Hebrew Bibie

•    The Text of the New Testament an lntroduction to the Critical Editions and to thc Ihcory and Praclicc of .Modern lestual CTitiasm - Kurt Aland & Barbara Aland. If you're a serious Bibie student, and want to know which manuscripts are the most "weighty", & why certain readings are chosen over other \ariant reading to go in the NT Text we have today then this is the book for you!

•    The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission. Corruption, and

Restoration - Bmcc Manning Metzger. For morethan 25 years the standard account of the compilation and transmission of the NT, this text offers a comprehensive survey of ancicnt & newh-discovered manuscripts, & considers both the science & art of textual criticism as applied to the interpretation of manuscripts. Containing references to morę than 150 additional books & articles dealing with Greek manuscripts, earh \erskms, & critical studies of witnesses to the text of the NT, it covers a yariety of textual prohlcms & proyides an objective account of the several schools of textual methodologs_