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Archaic Chronologies and the Textual History of the Old Testament

1974/07/01 by Ralph W. Klein · 6 citations
Social Sciences · Arts and Humanities · #Historical and Linguistic Studies #Biblical Studies and Interpretation #Classical Antiquity Studies #Chronology #History #Hebrew #Monarchy #Period (music) #Literature #Ancient history #Classics #Philosophy #Art #Archaeology #Politics #Political science

paper · doi:10.1017/s0017816000016801

published in Harvard Theological Review 67(3), 255-263 (Cambridge University Press)

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Abstract

Recent studies in the chronology of the monarchical period have demonstrated that the variations between the chronologies of MT and LXX are not the result of isolated misreadings, but are a product of different chronological calculations. These studies have been important not only for historical reconstruction, including new proposals for identification of kings involved in various war, but they have shed a good deal of light on the history of the text of the Hebrew Scriptures and LXX, including the Old Greek and the proto-Lucianic and kaige recensions. Furthermore, it is now possible to assign priority to one chronological system over another, and to understand why the different systems arose.

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