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See S. Leiman, The Canonization of the Hebrew Scripture: The Talmudic and Midrashic Evidence. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences (Archon Books: Hamden, Conn, 1976), esp. pp. 72–120.

Contra Apionem, I.37–41 (ed Loeb, trans. H. St. J. Thackeray).

Sukkah 20a. Hillel’s “establishment of the Torah” has, of course, been taken heretofore more generally to apply to his role in the interpretation of oral and written law, or even figuratively to his exemplary “living the Torah” Cf. E. E. Urbach, The Sages, Their Concepts and Beliefs (Magnes: Jerusalem, 1975), p. 588 and n. 91 (p. 955).

This textual tradition has also been called “Proto-Masoretic,” a designation that perhaps should be reserved for early exemplars of the Rabbinic Recension.

See F. M. Cross, “The History of the Biblical Text in the Light of Discoveries in the Judean Desert” (cited above, note 9), p. 291. D. Barthélemy notes Josephus’s reference to increased contacts between the Palestinian Jewish community and the Babylonian Jewish community during the reign of Herod (Antiquities 17.24–27); see his Études d’histoire du text de l’Ancien Testament (Éditions Universitaires: Fribourg, 1978), pp. 241f.

Maccabees 2:14 contains an interesting reference to massive destruction of books in the Antiochan conflict and their replacement by Judah.

See F. M. Cross, “The Contribution of the QumraÆn Discoveries to the Study of the Biblical Text,” Israel Exploration Journal 16 (1966), pp. 81–95, and esp. 282, n. 21.

See P. Benoit, J. T. Milik, and R. de Vaux, Les grottes de Murabba‘aÆt DJD II (Oxford The Clarendon Press, 1961), pp. 75–85 (plates 19–24), and 181–205 (plates 56–73).