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    <title>text of the Old Testament</title>
    <subTitle>an introduction to Kittel-Kahle's Biblia Hebraica</subTitle>
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    <partName>Old Testament. Hebrew. 1937</partName>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>W�urthwein, Ernst</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1909-1996</namePart>
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    <publisher>Macmillan</publisher>
    <dateIssued>1957</dateIssued>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>x, 173 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 24 cm.</extent>
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  <abstract>"This book is a kind of illustrated supplement to the great Kittel-Kahle Biblia Hebraica."--Book jacket.</abstract>
  <tableOfContents>Transmission of the text in the original language: -- Script and writing materials -- The masoretic text -- The Samaritan Pentateuch -- Translations from the original language: -- General matters concerning the versions -- The Septuagint -- The Aramaic targums -- The Syriac translations (Peshitta) -- The remaining translations: -- The old Latin -- The Vulgate -- The Coptic translations -- The Ethiopic translation -- The Armenian translation -- The Arabic translations -- Textual criticism: -- The aims of textual criticism -- Causes of textual corruption -- The methods of textual criticism.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">by Ernst W�urthwein ; translated by Peter R. Ackroyd.</note>
  <note>"This translation has been made from the author's revision of his Der Text des Alten Testaments (1952)."</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-173).</note>
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