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.