Kloppenborg (religion, U. of Toronto) and Newman (religion, U. Toronto) along with ten contributors examine problems associated with the editing of the Bible. The initial conversation began in Toronto at the forty-third Conference on Editorial Problems in 2007 organized by John Kloppenborg. This volume is included in the SBL's Resources for Biblical Studies series. The text includes abbreviations and an introduction, followed by eleven essays covering the following general topics: past and present editing of the Bible; the genealogy of the Biblical editor; the evolutionary composition of the Hebrew Bible; problems with editing the Hebrew Bible; evidence from the Qumran Scrolls for the scribal transmission of Leviticus; Greek papyri and the texts of the Hebrew Bible; editing of the New Testament; the coherence-based genealogical method; scribal practices and the transmission of Biblical texts; The New Testament in the light of book publishing and antiquity; and conjectural emendation and the New Testament. Annotation 2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
