Emanuel Tov is the J. L. Magnes Professor of Bible at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He is the editor in chief of the Dead Sea Scrolls Publication Project. Among his many publications are Dead Sea Scrolls Fragments in the Museum Collection (2016), The Text-Critical Use of the Septuagint in Biblical Research (2015), and Discoveries In the Judaean Desert: Volume XXXIX: Introduction and Indexes (2002).

Since its initial publication, Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible has established itself as the indispensable authoritative textbook and reference on the subject. In this thoroughly revised fourth edition, Emanuel Tov has incorporated the insights of the last ten years of scholarship.