Introduction: Material and Scribal Scrolls Approaches to the Hebrew Bible

Special issue of AABNER, "Material and Scribal Scrolls Approaches to the Hebrew Bible." This special issue is a follow-up to the KU Leuven Online International Symposium: "Scroll Approaches to the Hebrew Bible," organized by Danilo Verde (KU Leuven), which was held on June 16, 2021. Verde’s proposal was to discuss how research on the materiality of biblical texts can shed new light on the historical study of the Bible’s formation, reading, revision, and transmission. The purpose of the symposium, then, was to host discussions on the work in progress of David Carr (Union Theological Seminary, New York) as programmatically presented in his 2020 article “Rethinking the Materiality of Biblical Texts: From Source, Tradition and Redaction to a Scroll Approach.”