Scribal Wit : : Aramaic Mnemonics in the Leningrad Codex / / David Marcus.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2013
• VerfasserIn: Marcus, David,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Texts and Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (198 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; TABLE OF CONTENTS --; ABBREVIATIONS --; PREFACE --; CHAPTER 1: THE NATURE OF THE ARAMAIC MNEMONICS --; CHAPTER 2: HEBREW GRAMMAR AS REFLECTED IN THE MNEMONICS --; CHAPTER 3: IDENTIFICATION OF THE MNEMONICS --; CHAPTER 4: THE CORPUS OF THE ARAMAIC MNEMONICS IN ML --; EPILOGUE: PRACTICAL USE OF THE MNEMONICS --; APPENDIX A: THE LIST OF THE ARAMAIC MNEMONICS --; APPENDIX B: THE LEMMAS OF THE ARAMAIC MNEMONICS --; WORKS CITED --; INDEX OF BIBLICAL VERSES
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781463235499; 9783111024141; 9783110663037
• DOI: 10.31826/9781463235499
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: David Marcus.

This book presents a detailed analysis of the Aramaic mnemonics, those short witty sentences written in Aramaic as memory aids in the margins of one of the oldest extant biblical Hebrew manuscripts, the Leningrad Codex (1008 CE). The material is presented in clear, user-friendly charts. Each mnemonic is set alongside the Hebrew verses it represents. This book demonstrates the ingenuity of the Masoretes in their grand endeavor to preserve the text of the Hebrew Bible precisely in the form that it had reached them.