This volume includes the following articles: E Tov – The Lucianic Text of the canonical and the Apocryphal sections of Esther: A rewritten Biblical Book M L Klein – A neglected MS of a Palestinian Fragmnent-Targum from the Cairo Genisah L H Schiffman – The interchange of the Prepositions Bet and Mem in the Texts from Qumran M Cohen – Systems of Light Ga'yot in Medieval Biblical Manuscripts and their Importance for the History of the Tiberian Systems of Notation