A Plague of Texts? ─ A Text-Critical Study of the So-Called 'Plagues Narrative' in Exodus 7:14-11:10

In the case of this passage as with most others, says Lemmelijn (Old Testament, Katholieke U. Leuven, the Netherlands) text criticism has not been fully and systematically applied, but elements of it have only been extracted to shore up arguments in literary criticism or redactive criticism. She offers a detailed text-critical study of the text of the Plagues Narrative in Exodus within which she collects, examines, and determines the significance of all the textual material that has come to the fore as part of recent developments in the discipline of textual criticism, particularly the relevant textual fragments found at Qumran. She synthesizes the textual witnesses, then registers, describes, and evaluates the textual variants. Annotation c2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Benedicte Lemmelijn (1969) – Doctor in Theology/STD (1997) Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (BE) – is Professor of Old Testament at the K.U.Leuven and staff-member of the Leuven Centre of Septuagint Studies and Textual Criticism, Postdoctoral Fellow of the Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO) and Research Fellow of the University of the Free State (SA). She has published on redaction and textual criticism of Exod. 7:14-11:10 and on methodological aspects of the study of LXX translation technique.