This monograph discusses the possibility of different literary editions in the Masoretic Text and the Old Greek of 2 Samuel 10-12 by combining the methods of textual criticism and narrative analysis. The study includes an assessment of the textual development whenever signs of a different edition are detected. The text-critical study and the narrative analysis of 2 Sam 10-12 have been kept in distinct sections of the work for the convenience of the reader more interested in one aspect or the other. The narratives of the original Greek and the Masoretic Text can only be compared if the Old Greek in 2 Sam 10-12 is first attained. However, the OG of those chapters can be established only through the comparison between the Lucianic text and the so-called ????? text. This comparison requires the study of the translational or recensional features of both textual traditions, a subject treated in detail in the monograph.

In the sections devoted to textual criticism the testimony of 4QSama and the witnesses to the Vetus Latina have received much attention. The Targum, the Peshi?ta, Flavius Josephus and the Greek Chronicles have also been taken into account. This monograph discusses instances where MT?s version is older than OG?s account, but also cases when the OG is to be preferred. Not rarely, cases were encountered where it was not possible to decide whether it is the OG or MT that preserved the oldest reading.

This work also shows that reading the books of Samuel as a polyglot text is a fruitful exercise for biblical research. The textual traditions discussed were treated both for their value for textual criticism and as texts worth reading on their own, with attention to their specific narrative outlook.ABBREVIATIONS AND SIGLA.- PREFACE.- INTRODUCTION.- 1. The history of the research on the Septuagint of Samuel.- 2. Narrative technique and different literary editions.- 3. A few remarks on terminology.- 4. Editions of the biblical text.- CHAPTER ONE: 2 SAMUEL 10.- 1. The narrative technique in MT.- 2. The Greek variants: comparing LXXL and ?????. 3- The narrative technique in the Greek witnesses.- 4. Comparing the narratives in the OG and in MT.- 5. Conclusion.- CHAPTER TWO: 2 SAMUEL 11.- A. The adultery and the first attempts to cover it up (2 Sam 11, 1-3).- 1. The narrative technique in MT.- 2. The Greek variants: comparing LXXL and ?????.- 3. The narrative technique in the Greek witnesses.- 4. Comparing the narratives in the OG and in MT.- 5. Conclusion.- B. Uriah?s murder and the references to the battle (2 Sam 11, 14-27).- 1. The scholarly debate on 2 Sam 11,21-22.- 2. The narrative technique in MT.- 3. The Greek variants: comparing LXXL and ?????.- 4. The narrative technique in the Greek witnesses.- . 5. Comparing the narratives in the OG and in MT.- 6. Conclusion.- CHAPTER THREE: 2 SAMUEL 12.- 1. The narrative technique in 2 Sam 12.- 2.The Greek variants: comparing LXXL and ?????.- 3. The narrative technique in the Greek witnesses.- . 4. Comparing the narratives in the OG and in MT.- 5. Conclusion.- CONCLUSION.- BIBLIOGRAPHY.Leonardo Pessoa es licenciado en Derecho por la Universidad Federal de Minas Gerais, Brasil, y licenciado en Teología por la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Minas Gerais, Brasil. Completó su maestría y doctorado en la Sagrada Escritura en el Pontificio Instituto Bíblico de Roma. Enseña en la facultad teológica de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Minas Gerais y actualmente es profesor asistente de la facultad bíblica del Pontificio Instituto Bíblico. Sus principales publicaciones van desde artículos dedicados a la crítica textual OT, como "The beginning of the kaíye section of 2 Samuel" (Biblica [Roma], v.100, n.1, pp. 14-33, 2019) and "Crítica textual e violência na Bíblia: as guerras de Davi contadas pelas antigas testemunhas textuais de 2 Samuel" (Revista Eclesiástica Brasileira [Petrópolis], v. 77, n. 308, pp. 880-893, 2017), un análisis narrativo y exégesis técnica de los libros de Samuel, como "O adultério de Davi e Betsabéia: leitura feminista e técnica narrativa em 2Samuel 11" (Perspectiva teológica [Belo Horizonte], v. 49, pp. 277-296, 2017) y "As origens dos Livros de Samuel: status quaestionis" (ReBiblica [Porto Alegre], v. 1, n. 1, pp. 48-64, 2018), y a la relación entre exégesis y lectura popular de la Biblia, como "Il rapporto fra esegesi e lettura popolare della Bibbia nel lavoro di Carlos Mesters e nell'esperienza brasiliana" (Gregorianum [Roma], v. 100, n. 1, 2019).