I really like the Textual Notes section in the book of Esther in the Evangelical Exegetical Commentary. What resource would you recommend that focuses on textual notes of the Old Testament? And how about the book of Isaiah and other prophetic books? Either electronic or hard copy recommendations would be welcome. Thanks.
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Are you familiar with the NET Bible? The NET Bible notes are very text oriented and cover many issues. They are not exhaustive by any means but still valuable for making readers aware of underlying issues.
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Hi Paul, thanks for that suggestion. Yes, I have and use both the hard copy and electronic copies of NET for that purpose. Also, Lange's commentary has some great things. I just really loved the textual notes in the EEC and I wish there was a book specializing in just the textual notes for the whole of the Hebrew Bible. I'm actually surprised that there is not. Even the Word Biblical Commentary surprises me by the lack of such a tool in it.
Gregorio Billikopf:What resource would you recommend that focuses on textual notes of the Old Testament?
If you're seeking strictly textual notes, my impression is the NT has better strictly-textual-notes coverage, than the OT. I suspect it's because there's not much hebrew to discuss (MT, DSS, inscriptions/amulets, and theoretical proto-MT). Once you leave hebrew, the choices widen (eg the Septuagint Commentary, Aramaic Aging, etc).
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For the book of Isaiah, over a 20 year period I collected textual notes from the Masoretic text, LXX, DSS, Targums, Syriac, and other sources, so there are plenty of sources of interest for me. Most of my scholarly work I do comes from the Hebrew Bible. I would love to have something like this for all of the books of the Hebrew Bible. As I mentioned, I loved the EEC textual notes on the two volumes I own.