In The Qumran Manuscripts of Lamentations, Gideon Kotzé draws on text-critical analyses to establish how the content of the biblical book differs in the four Lamentations manuscripts from Qumran when compared to the Masoretic text and the ancient translations.

Gideon R. Kotzé, D.Th. (2011), University of Stellenbosch, is Part-time Lecturer at the Department of Ancient Studies of the same university. He has published articles on the Hebrew textual representatives of Lamentations, the Septuagint and textual criticism of the Hebrew Bible.