Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Emanuel Tov -- Copyright Page / Emanuel Tov -- Chapter 2 Textual Harmonization in Leviticus / Emanuel Tov -- Chapter 3 The Tenth Commandment of the Samaritans / Emanuel Tov -- Chapter 4 The Philosophy of the Biblia Hebraica Quinta Edition / Emanuel Tov -- Chapter 5 The Formation of the (Proto-)Masoretic Text / Emanuel Tov -- Chapter 6 Pierre-Maurice Bogaert, Le livre de Jérémie en perspective : "Introductory Remarks" / Emanuel Tov -- Chapter 7 Orthographic Practices of the Biblical Texts / Emanuel Tov -- Chapter 8 The Last Stage of the Literary History of the Book of Jeremiah / Emanuel Tov -- Chapter 9 Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible in the Digital Age: Advantages and Disadvantages of the Use of Digital Tools / Emanuel Tov -- Chapter 10 Vox Clamantis in Deserto : The History of the Interpretation and Misinterpretation of Isaiah 40:3 / Emanuel Tov -- Chapter 11 Copying the Torah: From the Time of the Judean Desert Scrolls to Modern Times / Emanuel Tov -- Chapter 12 From a Popular Jewish LXX - SP Text Block to Separate Group Texts: Insights from the Dead Sea Scrolls / Emanuel Tov -- Chapter 13 The Textual Value of the Septuagint Version of the Minor Prophets / Emanuel Tov -- Chapter 14 The Interaction Between Theological and Text-Critical Approaches / Emanuel Tov -- Chapter 15 The Renderings of the Divine Names in the Greek Torah / Emanuel Tov -- Chapter 16 The Use of the Earliest Greek Scripture Fragments in Text Editions / Emanuel Tov -- Chapter 17 The Palestinian Source of the Greek Translation of the Torah / Emanuel Tov -- Chapter 18 Papyrus Nash and the Septuagint / Emanuel Tov -- Chapter 19 Different Textual Traditions about Sheshonq-Shishak in the Hebrew and Greek Bible / Emanuel Tov -- Chapter 20 The Use of the Septuagint in Critical Commentaries / Emanuel Tov -- Chapter 21 P.Vindob.G. 39777 (Symmachus) and the Use of the Divine Names in Greek Scripture Texts / Emanuel Tov -- Chapter 22 The LXX Translators' Procedures in Representing Proper Names: Consistency in Representation / Emanuel Tov -- Chapter 23 The Qumran Tefillin and Their Possible Master Copies / Emanuel Tov -- Chapter 24 The Background and Origin of the Qumran Corpus of Scripture Texts / Emanuel Tov -- Chapter 25 Approaches of Scribes to the Biblical Text in Ancient Israel / Emanuel Tov -- Chapter 26 ‘Luxury Scrolls' from the Judean Desert / Emanuel Tov -- Chapter 27 Has the Field of Textual Criticism Changed in the Past Half-Century (1970-2023)? / Emanuel Tov -- Chapter 28 Some Academic Memoirs / Emanuel Tov.

Twenty-eight rewritten and updated essays on the textual criticism of the Hebrew Bible, the Septuagint, and the Dead Sea Scrolls mainly published between 2019 and 2022 are presented in the fifth volume of the author's collected essays. They are joined by an unpublished study, an unpublished "reflection" on the development of text-critical research in 1970-2020 and the author's academic memoirs. All the topics included in this volume are at the forefront of textual research.

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