The TAB-PUB (Tracking Ancient Bible Publishers) project investigates the variant literary editions that can be reconstructed behind the ancient textual forms of the Hebrew Bible. Combining textual criticism, literary criticism and digital humanities, it examines how ancient scribes revised, reorganised and transmitted biblical texts. The Book of Kings serves as the project’s central case study, while the textual history of the Pentateuch — especially the (pre-)Samaritan textual tradition — provides a comparative framework for interpreting these variant literary editions. Its results will be made available through open-access publications, presentations, structured research data and a searchable digital knowledge graph. By integrating text-critical and literary-historical analysis with digital modelling, TAB-PUB aims to offer fresh perspectives on ancient scribal culture, the transmission of biblical texts and the formation of scriptural authority.

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