Monday, November 03, 2025

The Oxford Handbook of the Textual Criticism of the Bible, eds. Crawford & Wasserman

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Any day now, Oxford University Press will publish The Oxford Handbook of the Textual Criticism of the Bible edited by Sidnie White Crawford and myself. I think we began working on this handbook in 2019, and there were many hurdles along the way, but soon I will hold the volume in my hand. Hopefully, the OUP will bring some copies to the SBL in Boston, but you can never be sure. In the meantime you can get 30% off with the promotion code AUFLY30. 

Below the flyer, I have pasted the table of contents (minus page numbers).

 It is possible to read a bit on google books (e.g., the whole introduction which summarizes the chapters). 

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Introduction

PART I OVERARCHING ISSUES

 

1. The Formation of the Jewish Canon

James C. VanderKam

 

2. The Formation of the Christian Canon

John D. Meade

 

3. Philosophies of Textual Criticism for the Hebrew Bible

Ronald Hendel

 

4. Beyond “Textual” and “Literary” Criticism: A New Paradigm for the Study of Textual History

Molly M. Zahn

 

5. Philosophies of Textual Criticism for the New Testament

Michael W. Holmes

 

6. Book History, New/ Material Philology, and Paratextual Criticism

David Davage and Liv Ingeborg Lied

 

PART II THE HEBREW BIBLE AND THE DEUTEROCANON

 

7. The History of Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible from Antiquity to the Twentieth Century

Eugene Ulrich and Sidnie White Crawford

 

8. The Earliest Texts of the Hebrew Bible

Emanuel Tov

 

9. The Masoretic Text and Its Value for Textual Criticism of the

Hebrew Bible

Armin Lange

 

10. The Significance of the Septuagint in the Textual Study of the Hebrew Bible

Anneli Aejmelaeus

 

11. The Samaritan Pentateuch and Its Value for Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible

Hila Dayfani

 

12. The Syriac Peshitta and Its Value for Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible

Bradley J. Marsh Jr.

 

13. The Latin Versions and Their Value for Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible

Andrés Piquer Otero and Pablo A. Torijano

 

14. The Targumim and Their Value for Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible

Leeor Gottlieb

 

15. Editing the Hebrew Bible: Biblia Hebraica Quinta

Innocent Himbaza

 

16. Editing the Hebrew Bible: The Hebrew University Bible Project

Michael Segal

 

17. Editing the Hebrew Bible: The Hebrew Bible: A Critical Edition

Ronald Hendel

 

18. Teaching Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible

John Screnock

 

19. The Theory and Practice of Textual Criticism of the Septuagint

Tuukka Kauhanen

 

20. The Practice of Hebrew Bible Textual Criticism in the

Twenty- First Century

Drew Longacre

 

21. Issues in the Textual Criticism of the Deuterocanon

Benjamin G. Wright III

 

PART III THE NEW TESTAMENT

 

22. The Practice of New Testament Textual Criticism in the Twenty- First Century

H. A. G. Houghton

 

23. The History of New Testament Textual Criticism

Jan Krans and An- Ting Yi

 

24. The Dating of Early Christian Manuscripts: Paleography and Material Culture

Pasquale Orsini

 

25. Text- Types and the Coherence- Based Genealogical Method

Peter J. Gurry

 

26. The Greek New Testament Manuscripts and Other Witnesses

Elijah Hixson

 

27. The Syriac and Christian Palestinian Aramaic Versions of the New Testament

Andreas Juckel

 

28. The Latin Versions of the New Testament

Georg Gäbel

 

29. The Coptic Versions of the New Testament

Christian Askeland

 

30. The Ethiopic Version of the New Testament

Curt Niccum

 

31. The Gothic Version of the New Testament

Carla Falluomini

 

32. Patristic Evidence in New Testament Textual Criticism

Holger Strutwolf

 

33. Criteria for the Assessment of Readings in New Testament Textual Criticism

Tommy Wasserman

 

34. The New Testament Text, Paratexts, and Reception History

Jennifer Wright Knust

 

35. New Testament Textual Criticism and Exegesis

Elizabeth E. Shively

 

36. New Testament Textual Criticism and Digital Humanities

Claire Clivaz

 

37. Critical Editions of the Greek New Testament from the Twentieth to Twenty- First Century

Annette Hüffmeier and Gregory S. Paulson

 

38. New Testament Textual Criticism in Teaching and Practice

Amy S. Anderson