Articles in this volume inlcude: James A Sanders – Hermeneutics of Text criticism Raphael Weiss – A peculiar textual phenomenon Hermann-Josef Stipp – The prophetic messenger formulaes in Jeremiah according to the Masoretic and Alexandrian texts Al Woters: The Tetragrammaton in the Psalms scroll Piet Dirksen – The Urmia edition of the Peshitta: the story behind the text