The Qumran Scrolls of the Book of Judges: Literary Formation, Textual Criticism, and Historical Linguistics

This is a pilot attempt to combine literary-critical, text-critical, and historical linguistic approaches in an analysis of
|selected linguistic variants between the MT and DSS with an application to the book of Judges. The result of this
|interdisciplinary exercise is that future research on the history of BH will have to contend more earnestly with the "fluidity" (or "changeability") of language and the "non-directionality" (or "patternlessness") of linguistic variants in biblical texts.