Seminar in der Kategorie Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen
Vorbesprechung
Montag, 19.04.2010 12:15 - 13:45
Erster Termin
Montag, 19.04.2010 12:15 - 13:45, Ort: (SemR E, Haus 25)
Teilnehmende
The seminary will be conducted as a joint class of the faculties of Göttingen and Halle. While the introductory meeting (19th April) will be held separately in each of the two places, the first of the two main meetings will be held in Halle, and the second in Göttingen.
Voraussetzungen
Very good knowledge of Hebrew and Greek is a prerequisite. Those interested in participating are encouraged to contact me before, although this is not compulsory.
The Book of Exodus has come down to us in a number of witnesses, especially the Masoretic text (MT), the Samaritan text (SP), the Septuagint (LXX) and a number of quite important fragments from Qumran. A close look at these different witnesses reveals that in fact we have to deal not with one uniform text, but with different texts. A number of differences between these texts cannot sufficiently be dealt with as text-critical variants, i.e. resulting from the corruption of a supposed “Urtext”, but should be dealt with on the level of literary history.
The seminar aims at examining the textual development of the book of Exodus as reflected in its textual witnesses focusing on four test cases, taken from various parts of the book and representing potentially different literary sources: chapters 12, 27, 32 and 40. Special attention will be given to the ‘harmonistic’ text-form represented in the Samaritan Pentateuch and the ‘pre-Samaritan’ scrolls from Qumran vis-à-vis the Masoretic Text, the Septuagint and the other Exodus scrolls from the Judean Desert. We will see how the fluidity of the text affects the literary structure of the book and how the interpretation of individual passages is transformed when moving from one text-form to another. Good knowledge of Biblical Hebrew and Greek is required, but no previous knowledge of either Qumran or Samaritan Hebrew will be assumed, and we will introduce some basic codicological and paleographic aspects of the Paleo-Hebrew and Samaritan manuscripts in order to enable students to collate such textual sources on their own.
Course Plan
• Introductory Class: Tuesday, 19.4.2011
This will be an introductory meeting, conducted separately in Halle and in Göttingen, in order to become acquainted with the participants, outline the structure and content of the seminar, and assign the material to be prepared for the next meetings.
• First Weekend: Friday–Saturday, 29–30.4.2011 (Halle)
Exodus 12 and 32
• Second Weekend: Friday–Saturday, 13–14.5.2011 (Göttingen)
Exodus 27and 40
