Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible, 3rd edition

Emanuel Tov is a leading textual critic of the Hebrew Bible, and this Fortress Press book, now in its third edition, is his standard textbook on the discipline, covering the manuscript evidence, the ancient versions and the methods used to reconstruct the text's transmission history. Its strength is that it is the field's own standard teaching text, written by a scholar whose work on the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Septuagint has shaped the discipline itself. Its limit is that it is a methodological textbook surveying the field broadly, so a claim needing detailed treatment of one specific manuscript or textual variant needs a source or edition focused on that particular case.