Critical Editions of the Hebrew Bible

柏拉图的作品、《新约》、莎士比亚的作品，以及西方文学传统中的大多数伟大作品，都曾在批评性版本中发表过。在这份名单上明显缺席的是希伯来语圣经(也被称为《旧约》)，尽管它对西方文明产生了深远的影响，但并没有得到同样的待遇。取而代之的是，学术版印刷的是公元11世纪开始的单一手稿文本，也就是希伯来语圣经完成后的一千多年。一个国际学者团体正在通过出版《希伯来语圣经：批判版》(以下简称HBCE)来解决这一愿望。拟议的项目将能够完成这一系列的《列王记》和《诗篇》第100-150卷。每一卷将包含一个导言，一个带有批评工具的批判性折衷文本(即，使用多个证人的读物的批判性重建文本)，以及对文本发展和重建批评文本背后的理由的评论。考据工作--尤其是编写批评版本的任务--需要许多技能、研究时间和视角。圣经文本批评家的传统技能包括精通至少五种语言，熟悉以这些语言传播的文本传统，以及识别一系列已知的抄写做法的经验。文本批评研究的最新发展现在也要求文本批评家自信地从事一些方法论问题，并掌握姐妹学科，如希伯来语言学、文学批评和死海古卷研究。完全掌握制作这些版本所涉及的许多方面将需要一生的学习。为了创作最好的文本评论作品，我们提出了一个以合作为中心的项目，使我们能够利用我们世界各地同事的专业知识。拟议的项目将制作关键版本的《列王记》和《诗篇100-150》，供SBL出版社出版。鉴于这一系列出版物的地位，这两个版本理所当然地被认为是这两个文本考证方面的领先学术。除了这些版本的印刷版本外，SBL出版社还将出版一个免费的在线版本的数据，他们将在拟议项目结束后很长一段时间内保留这些数据。该项目将通过牛津希伯来语和犹太研究中心的一系列六个公共论坛，以及将由牛津教育媒体服务和iTunes主办的基于这些活动的播客，向更广泛的公众传播其调查结果。

The works of Plato, the New Testament, Shakespeare, and most great works in the western literary tradition, have all been published in critical editions. The conspicuous absentee from this list is the Hebrew Bible (also known as the Old Testament), which, despite its profound impact on western civilization, has not been afforded the same treatment. Instead, scholarly editions print the text of a single manuscript from the start of the 11th century CE, over a millennium after the completion of the Hebrew Bible. An international group of scholars is addressing this desideratum by publishing The Hebrew Bible: A Critical Edition (hereafter HBCE). The proposed project will enable the completion of volumes on 1 Kings and Psalms 100-150 in this series. Each volume will contain an introduction, a critical eclectic text with critical apparatus (i.e., a critically reconstructed text that uses readings from multiple witnesses), and a commentary on the development of the text and the reasoning behind the reconstruction of the critical text.The work of textual criticism - and the task of putting together a critical edition, in particular - requires many skills, research hours, and perspectives. The traditional skill-set of the biblical text-critic includes high proficiency in at least five languages, intimate knowledge of the textual traditions transmitted in those languages, and experience in recognizing a range of known scribal practices. Recent developments in the study of textual criticism now also require the text-critic to engage a number of methodological issues with confidence, and to master sister disciplines like Hebrew linguistics, literary criticism, and Dead Sea scrolls studies. Complete mastery of the many aspects involved in producing these editions would entail a lifetime of study. To produce the best text-critical work possible, we propose a project centered on collaboration that will enable us to draw on the expertise of our colleagues around the world.The proposed project will produce critical editions of 1 Kings and Psalms 100-150 for publication with SBL Press. Given the stature of the publication series, these editions will rightly be considered the leading scholarship in textual criticism of these two texts. In addition to the printed versions of these editions, SBL Press will publish a free, online version of the data that they will maintain long past the end date of the proposed project. The project will disseminate its findings to the wider public through a series of six public forums at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, and through podcasts based on these events that will be hosted by Oxford's Educational Media Services and iTunes.