Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Table of Contents; Body; List of Abbreviations; 1. Journals, periodicals, major reference works, and series; 2. Bible Texts, Versions; 3. Hebrew Bible; 4. New Testament; 5. Apocrypha and Septuagint; 6. Mishnah, Tosefta, Talmud; 7. Other Rabbinic Works; 8. Targumic Texts; 9. Josephus; 10. General Abbreviations; Preface; Elvira Martín-Contreras and Lorena Miralles-Maciá; ILC-CSIC and University of Granada, Spain: Interdisciplinary Perspectives for the Study of the Text of the Hebrew Bible: Open Questions; I; II; III; IV; V; VI I. The Preservation and Transmission of the Hebrew BibleEmanuel Tov; Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel: The Myth of the Stabilization of the Text of Hebrew Scripture; I; II; III; John Van Seters; University of North Carolina, USA: Did the Sopherim Create a Standard Edition of the Hebrew Scriptures?; Introduction; The Sopherim and the Homeric Scholars of Alexandria; The Sopherim and the Master Scroll in the Temple; The Sopherim and the Qumran Scrolls; The Proto-MT Texts and the Medieval Mss; Conclusion; Arie van der Kooij Leiden University, Netherlands: Standardization or Preservation? Some Comments on the Textual History of the Hebrew Bible in the Light of Josephus and Rabbinic LiteratureI; II; III; IV; V; Elvira Martín-Contreras; ILC (CSIC), Spain: Rabbinic Ways of Preservation and Transmission of the Biblical Text in the Light of Masoretic Sources; Introduction; The Research Project; Methodology; Appendix I; Appendix II; Günter Stemberger: Preliminary Notes on Grammar and Orthography in Halakhic Midrashim: Late Additions?; 1. Questions of Grammar; 2. Orthography and Spelling; 3. Conclusions Julio Trebolle and Pablo TorijanoUniversidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain: The Behavior of the Hebrew Medieval Manuscripts and the Vulgate, Aramaic and Syriac Versions of 1-2 Kings vis-à-vis the Masoretic Text and the Greek Version; 1. Agreement of Hebrew Variants with LXX Readings; 2. Agreement of Hebrew Variants + Aramaic, Syriac and Vulgate Versions with LXX Readings; 3. Agreement of the Aramaic, Syriac and Vulgate Versions with LXX Readings; 4. Conclusions; II. The Masorah and other Approaches to study the Text of the Hebrew Bible; Nathan R. Jastram Concordia University Wisconsin, USA: The Severus Scroll and Rabbi Meir's TorahAlex Samely; Manchester University, United Kingdom: Some Literary Features of Midrashic and Masoretic Statements; Introduction; 1. Formal Sentence Types: Meta-Language and Object Language; 2. Masorah Parva in Contrast to Midrashic Units; 3. Masoretic Information in a Midrashic Literary Environment; 4. Text Types: Object Orientation and Meta-Linguistic Orientation -Ostensive and Tacit; Willem F. Smelik University College London, United Kingdom: Targum & Masorah. Does Targum Jonathan Follow the `Madinhae' Readings of Ketiv-Qere? | 
