Articles in this volume include: Michael V Fox – The alpha text of the Greek Esther Jan Joosten – The Old Testament Quotations in the Old Syriac and Peshitta Gospels Stephen A Reed – A puzzling Masoretic note in Joshua 21:35 Claude Cox – Vocabulary for Wrongdoing and Forgiveness in the Greek Translations of Job A Graeme Auld – The cities in Joshua 21: The contribution of textual criticism Isaac L Seeligmann – problems and perspectives in Modern Septuagint Research

Articles in this volume of Textus include: Lea Mazor – The Origin and Evolution of the Curse upon the Rebuilder of Jericho – A contribution of textual criticism to Biblical Historiography E Talstra – AJC Verheij – Comparing Samuel/Kings and Chronicles-The Computer assisted production of an Analytical synoptic database James C Vanderkam – Jubilees and Hebrew texts of Genesis-Exodus Jan Joosten – The use of some particles in the Old Testament Peshitta

Articles in this volume of Textus include: James Barr – Doubts about Homoeophony in the Septuagint Nechama Leiter – Assimilation and Dissimilation techniques in the LXX of the Book of Balaam

Articles in this volume of Textus include: William Adler – Computer assisted Morphological Analysis of the Septuagint Julio Trebolle – Freom the "Old Latin" through the "Old Greek" to the "Old Hebrew" (2 Kings 10:23-25) Frank H Polak – Jer. 23:29 – An expanded Colon in the LXX? John R Abercrombie – Computer Assisted Alignment of the Greek and Hebrew Biblical Texts – Programming Background

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

Articles in this volume include: S Talmon – E Tow – A Commentary on the Text of Jeremiah B Kedar-Kopfstin – The Hebrew Text of Joel as reflected in the Vulgate I Avineri – An example of the influence of Hebrew on the Peshitta translation – the status Constructus J.S. Penkower – Maimonides and the Aleppo Codex

Articles in this volume include: S Jellicoe – Hebrew-Greek Equivalents for the Nether World, its milieu and inhabitants, in the Old Testament. T Muraoka – Literary Device in the Septuagint G Howard – Kaige reading in Josephus MH Goshen-Gottstein – Hebrew Syntax and the History of the Bible Text ME Stone – The Old Armenian Version of Isaiah: Towards the Choice of the Base Text for an Edition N Snaith – The introductions to the speeches of Job – Are they in Prose or in Verse?

Essays in this volume include: D.W. Gooding – Problems of Text and Midrash in the Third Book of Reigns B Kedar-Kopfstein – Textual Gleanings from the Vulgate to Jeremiah E.J.Revell – A New Biblical Fragment with Palestinian Volcalisation I Yeivin – The Division into sections in the Book of Psalms I Yeivin – The New Edition of the Biblia Hebraica – its Text and Massorah

Essays in this volume include: S Talmon – Some Unrecorded fragments of the Hebrew Pentateuch in the Samaritan Version (with 5 plates) I Yeivin – A Palestinian fragment of Haftaroth and other MSS with mixed pointing (with two plates) M H Goshen-Gottstein – Theory and Practice of Textual Criticism: The Text-critical Use of the Septuagint