Coherence—whether understood narrowly as compatibility between constituents of a textual world, or quite broadly as a regulative principle applying to all areas of text production and reception—is a constitutive feature of textuality.2 While there is much disagreement about the concept, all agree that “coherence” is a fundamental ingredient of a “text” as such—or at least of its meaningful experience. It is an expectation brought to anything that might be considered a ‘text,’ though it is not found in equal measure in every text.3 The degree and kind of coherence expected of a text (and the effort exerted to satisfy such expectations) depend on a variety of factors.4 This article sketches an anatomy of issues representing key points of debate, differences in approach, and decisions that must be made in the attempt to understand coherence and incoherence in ancient Jewish literature. One of several key difficulties in assessing the
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{"title":"The Spread of the Ideological Concept of a (Jerusalem-Centred) Tōrâ-centred Israel beyond Yehud: Observations and Implications","authors":"S. Honigman","doi":"10.1628/HEBAI-2020-0024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1628/HEBAI-2020-0024","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42564,"journal":{"name":"Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel","volume":"9 1","pages":"370"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67503851","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Traditional Textual Criticism Reconsidered: MT (codex L)-Ezek 35, LXX (papyrus 967)-Ezek 35 and its Hebrew Vorlage as Variant Editions and the Implications for the Search for the »Original« Text","authors":"K. Finsterbusch","doi":"10.1628/HEBAI-2020-0020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1628/HEBAI-2020-0020","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42564,"journal":{"name":"Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel","volume":"9 1","pages":"334"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67503759","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Biblical Interpretation and Redaction History","authors":"Reinhard G. Kratz","doi":"10.1628/hebai-2020-0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1628/hebai-2020-0012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42564,"journal":{"name":"Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel","volume":"9 1","pages":"209-246"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67503067","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Between Textual Criticismand Literary Criticism","authors":"K. Finsterbusch, R. Fuller, A. Lange","doi":"10.1628/HEBAI-2020-0015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1628/HEBAI-2020-0015","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42564,"journal":{"name":"Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67503135","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What is a Jewish Biblical Text?","authors":"","doi":"10.1628/hebai-2020-0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1628/hebai-2020-0017","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42564,"journal":{"name":"Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67503196","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tōrâ-centred Israel. When a Yehudite Concept Met Ptolemaic Egypt","authors":"S. Honigman","doi":"10.1628/HEBAI-2020-0023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1628/HEBAI-2020-0023","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42564,"journal":{"name":"Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel","volume":"9 1","pages":"367"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67503832","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Standards of Cohesion and Coherence: Evidence from Early Readers","authors":"M. Lyons","doi":"10.1628/hebai-2020-0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1628/hebai-2020-0011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42564,"journal":{"name":"Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel","volume":"9 1","pages":"183"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67503453","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Casting Nets and Burning Temples: The Babylonian and Persian Background of Jer 43:8–13","authors":"R. Goldstein","doi":"10.1628/hebai-2020-0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1628/hebai-2020-0006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42564,"journal":{"name":"Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel","volume":"9 1","pages":"62"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67503397","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Legal Strategies of Judaeans in Herakleopolis, Middle Egypt, according to the Archives of the Politeuma","authors":"K. Czajkowski, Stéphanie Wackenier","doi":"10.1628/HEBAI-2020-0026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1628/HEBAI-2020-0026","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42564,"journal":{"name":"Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel","volume":"9 1","pages":"415"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67503976","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}