Epigraphy, Philology, and the Hebrew Bible: Methodological Perspectives on Philological and Comparative Studies on the Hebrew Bible in Honor of Jo Ann Hackett. SBL ANEM 12 (Atlanta: SBL, 2015). Co-edited with Aaron Rubin. (original) (raw)
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Open Access link: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110707014/html, 2021
This book is the result of the collaboration of two scholars on a research topic of common interest. Jaeyoung Jeon of the Université de Lausanne, Switzerland, through a grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) for a project titled "A Bible born out of conflict" initiated the idea of bringing scholarship on the Priestly literature and Chronicles together in a critical and creative interaction. He approached Louis Jonker of Stellenbosch University, South Africa, who has called for interaction between Chronicles and Pentateuchal scholarship in the past, and who specializes in Chronicles to jointly organize a project on this research idea. After identifying scholars working in these two related fields, they jointly organized an in-person meeting of participants where specialists on Priestly literature and on Chronicles respectively, could test their ideas in dialogue with one another. Thereafter, participants in the dialogue were requested to formulate their ideas on paper, in the wake of the oral in-person interaction. The papers were submitted to Jeon and Jonker who acted as editors of this volume that documents the outcome of the project group's joint deliberations. After receiving the submissions, the editors submitted each contribution to two independent reviewers who did not participate in the in-person dialogue. They also invited two more contributions on aspects that were not sufficiently covered in the initial round of dialogue. The last-mentioned contributions were also, like the former, submitted to the double-blind peer reviewing process. The feedback of this process was communicated to each author who had the task of revising her/ his contribution in light of the critical engagements of the peer reviewers. This volume is thus the result not only of collaboration between two fields of Hebrew Bible specialization, but also of the scholarly engagement within the wider project team, as well as with a group of independent peer reviewers.
This is a review of Liv Ingeborg Lied and Hugo Lundhaug, "Snapshots of Evolving Traditions: Jewish and Christian Manuscript Culture, Textual Fluidity, and New Philology," TU 175 (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2017) that was presented in the Book History and Biblical Literatures section at the 2017 Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting in Boston, MA.