Farewell to Textual Criticism?Instead of abandoning textual criticism, scholars should embrace the productive tension between composition and transmission as a source of deeper insight into the Hebrew Bible’s textual history.
By Ronald Hendel
Norma and Sam Dabby Professor Emeritus of Hebrew Bible and Jewish Studies
University of California, Berkeley
November 2025
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