The Qumran Manuscripts of Lamentations: A Text-Critical Study

In The Qumran Manuscripts of Lamentations: A Text-Critical Study, the
|first large-scale investigation of the topic, Gideon Kotzé establishes
|how the four Lamentations manuscripts from Qumran present the content
|of the biblical book. Kotzé takes as his point of departure the
|contributions of the Dead Sea scrolls to the discipline of Old
|Testament textual criticism and treats the Qumran manuscripts of
|Lamentations, the Masoretic text and the ancient translations as
|witnesses to the content of the book and not only as witnesses to
|earlier forms of its Hebrew text. By focusing the analysis on variant
|readings and textual difficulties, the study arrives at a better
|understanding of these manuscripts.