The Institut Dominique Barthélemy, in Fribourg, will hold an international symposium in next November about the textual criticism of the Hebrew Bible:
Text History of the Hebrew Bible (Nebi’im) Between the 4th and 1st Centuries BCE: Multiplicity of Text Types and/or Hierarchy amongThem?
with conferences by Adrian Schenker, Armin Lange, Yohanan Goldman, Thomas Römer, Jan Joosten, Innocent Himbaza, Philippe Hugo, and myself.
Here is the general presentation of the meeting given on the website of the Institut Dominique Barthélemy, where more details are available (including the summaries of the conferences):
“It is common today to speak of multiple text types in the earliest text history of the Hebrew Bible. What is the most adequate explanation of this multplicity? Does it result from different places, or from different Jewish communities reading the Bible in parallel text forms (Jews in Jerusalem, Samaritans, Alexandrian Jews, etc.)? Does one has to reckon moreover with different qualities or evaluations of certain text forms? In other words, among the different text types, were there some with a special level of esteem and recognition?
Such questions also draw attention to the choice of the text to be edited for modern editions of the Hebrew Bible.”
My own contribution will consist in a study of the differences regarding the kings and the kingdoms (Israel and Judah) between the Masoretic Text and the Old Greek in 2 Kings/4 Reigns.
