Emanuel Tov
Emanuel Tov, FBA and member of the Israel Academy and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Former Editor-in-Chief, Dead Sea Scrolls Publication Project
J. L. Magnes Professor of Bible Emeritus,
Dept. of Bible, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 91905, Israel
TEL: ++972-2-5883514 (o), 5815714 (h),
E-mail: emanuel.tov@mail.huji.ac.il
Website: www.emanueltov.info
Born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Emanuel Tov emigrated to Israel in 1961. He studied Bible (B.A., M.A.) and Greek literature (B.A.) at the Hebrew University and continued his studies at the Dept. of Near Eastern Languages and Literatures at Harvard University between 1967 and 1969. He obtained his Ph.D. degree at the Hebrew University in 1973.
Since 1986 Emanuel Tov has been a professor in the Dept. of Bible of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem (since 1990 he holds the J. L. Magnes chair), from which he retired in 2009. He has been a guest professor at various Universities in Europe, the USA, Japan, Australia, and South Africa. He received several research awards, among them the Humboldt Research Prize, Germany, the Emet Prize in Biblical Research (2004), and the Israel Prize (2009). In 2006 he was appointed Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy, in 2012 he was appointed member of the Israel Academy of Sciences, and in 2017 he was appointed Corresponding Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2010 he received the Samaritan Medal for Humanitarian Achievement from the High Priest on Mt. Gerizim. He received honorary doctorates from the Universities of Vienna (2008), Salzburg (2019), and Copenhagen (2021). In 2023 he received the Salo W. and Jeanette Baron Award for Scholarly Excellence in Research of the Jewish Experience. In 2024 he was awarded lifetime status of “Highly Ranked Scholar” by ScholarGPS (Bible).
E. Tov specializes in various aspects of the textual criticism of Hebrew and Greek Scripture as well as in the Qumran Scrolls. He has written and edited numerous books and articles, among them two text books. One of them, Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible, now in its fourth edition (2022), was awarded the Prize for the Best Book Relating to the Old Testament by the Biblical Archaeological Society in Washington (1992).
Emanuel Tov is involved in several research projects, and between 1990 and 2010, most of his energy was invested in directing the Dead Sea Scrolls Publication Project. Under his guidance thirty-three volumes appeared in 1992-2010 in the Discoveries in the Judaean Desert series, including two concordances.
Phone: +97225815714
Address: dept of bible
hebrew university
jerusalem 91905
israel
Former Editor-in-Chief, Dead Sea Scrolls Publication Project
J. L. Magnes Professor of Bible Emeritus,
Dept. of Bible, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 91905, Israel
TEL: ++972-2-5883514 (o), 5815714 (h),
E-mail: emanuel.tov@mail.huji.ac.il
Website: www.emanueltov.info
Born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Emanuel Tov emigrated to Israel in 1961. He studied Bible (B.A., M.A.) and Greek literature (B.A.) at the Hebrew University and continued his studies at the Dept. of Near Eastern Languages and Literatures at Harvard University between 1967 and 1969. He obtained his Ph.D. degree at the Hebrew University in 1973.
Since 1986 Emanuel Tov has been a professor in the Dept. of Bible of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem (since 1990 he holds the J. L. Magnes chair), from which he retired in 2009. He has been a guest professor at various Universities in Europe, the USA, Japan, Australia, and South Africa. He received several research awards, among them the Humboldt Research Prize, Germany, the Emet Prize in Biblical Research (2004), and the Israel Prize (2009). In 2006 he was appointed Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy, in 2012 he was appointed member of the Israel Academy of Sciences, and in 2017 he was appointed Corresponding Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2010 he received the Samaritan Medal for Humanitarian Achievement from the High Priest on Mt. Gerizim. He received honorary doctorates from the Universities of Vienna (2008), Salzburg (2019), and Copenhagen (2021). In 2023 he received the Salo W. and Jeanette Baron Award for Scholarly Excellence in Research of the Jewish Experience. In 2024 he was awarded lifetime status of “Highly Ranked Scholar” by ScholarGPS (Bible).
E. Tov specializes in various aspects of the textual criticism of Hebrew and Greek Scripture as well as in the Qumran Scrolls. He has written and edited numerous books and articles, among them two text books. One of them, Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible, now in its fourth edition (2022), was awarded the Prize for the Best Book Relating to the Old Testament by the Biblical Archaeological Society in Washington (1992).
Emanuel Tov is involved in several research projects, and between 1990 and 2010, most of his energy was invested in directing the Dead Sea Scrolls Publication Project. Under his guidance thirty-three volumes appeared in 1992-2010 in the Discoveries in the Judaean Desert series, including two concordances.
Phone: +97225815714
Address: dept of bible
hebrew university
jerusalem 91905
israel
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Books by Emanuel Tov
of the Hebrew Bible, the Torah, the (proto-) Masoretic Text, the
Septuagint, and the Dead Sea Scrolls originally published between
2010 and 2018 are presented in this fourth volume of the author’s
collected essays. These areas have all developed much in modern
research, and the author, the past editor-in-chief of the
international Dead Sea Scrolls publication project, has been a
major speaker in all of them. The topics presented in this volume
display some of his emerging interests (the text of the Torah and
the proto-MT), including central studies on the development of the
text of the Torah, the enigma of the MT, and the Scripture text of
the te llin.
Edited books by Emanuel Tov
of the Hebrew Bible, the Torah, the (proto-) Masoretic Text, the
Septuagint, and the Dead Sea Scrolls originally published between
2010 and 2018 are presented in this fourth volume of the author’s
collected essays. These areas have all developed much in modern
research, and the author, the past editor-in-chief of the
international Dead Sea Scrolls publication project, has been a
major speaker in all of them. The topics presented in this volume
display some of his emerging interests (the text of the Torah and
the proto-MT), including central studies on the development of the
text of the Torah, the enigma of the MT, and the Scripture text of
the te llin.
understand how the various biblical texts emerged. Thus, the more we know, the less we know.
We will never have firm answers regarding whether there was once an original text of Hebrew Scripture and which of the known texts represents that text best. Moreover, at least in some chapters, it seems quite possible that more than one formulation of the text circulated already in early times, making it difficult to even discuss which formulation is earlier or later.
TheMasoreticText(MT)oftheTorah,theversionusedbyallJewstoday(including Karaites),[1] is a carefully
copied text,butthatdoesn’tmeanitisperfectoralwaysreflectiveoftheoriginal.[2] Whenanalyzingvariants, scholars will often express an opinion on the comparative value for each reading, and I will do so here as well.