The Hebrew Bible: A Critical Edition (HBCE) represents a new model for a critical edition of the Hebrew Bible. It is a collaborative project involving senior biblical scholars worldwide as well as:

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General Editors

Ronald Hendel is Norma and Sam Dabby Professor of Hebrew Bible and Jewish Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. In 1999 he received the Frank Moore Cross Publications Award from the American Schools of Oriental Research. His books include The Text of Genesis 1-11: Textual Studies and Critical Edition (Oxford University Press, 1998), Remembering Abraham: Culture, History, and Memory in the Hebrew Bible (Oxford University Press, 2005), Reading Genesis: Ten Methods (editor and contributor; Cambridge University Press, 2010), and The Book of Genesis: A Biography (Princeton University Press, 2013).

Sidnie White Crawford is Willa Cather Professor of Hebrew Bible and Second Temple Judaism emerita at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and a Visiting Professor at Princeton Theological Seminary. Her latest book is The Text of the Pentateuch: Textual Criticism and the Dead Sea Scrolls (De Gruyter, 2022). Her Scribes and Scrolls at Qumran (Eerdmans, 2019) won the Biblical Archaeology Society’s “Best Popular Book on Archaeology” and the Frank Moore Cross Award from the American Schools of Oriental Research. Crawford is currently Chair of the Old Testament Editorial Board for Hermeneia: A Commentary Series (Fortress).

Book Editors

List of current editorial assignments

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