Jewish Manuscript Cultures : : New Perspectives / / Irina Wandrey.

Hebrew manuscripts are considered to be invaluable documents and artefacts of Jewish culture and history. Research on Hebrew manuscript culture is progressing rapidly and therefore its topics, methods and questions need to be enunciated and reflected upon. The case studies assembled in this volume e...

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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2017]
©2017
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Studies in Manuscript Cultures Ser.
Physical Description:1 online resource (494 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface / Wandrey, Irina
  • Codicology and Palaeography
  • From the Archaeological Turn to 'Codicologie Structurale': The Concept of Codicology and the Material Description of Hebrew Manuscripts / Barco, Javier del
  • Scribal Aspects of the Manufacturing and Writing of the Qumran Scrolls / Tov, Emanuel
  • The Anatomy of Non-biblical Scrolls from the Cairo Geniza / Olszowy-Schlanger, Judith
  • A Pentateuch to Read in? The Secrets of the Regensburg Pentateuch / Liss, Hanna
  • Editing
  • Shedding Light on Metatron - Recently Discovered Fragments of Mystical Writings in Germany / Lehnardt, Andreas
  • On the History of Editing Pre-Modern Yiddish Manuscript Texts / Matut, Diana
  • Collections
  • The Preservation of Hebrew Books by Christians in the Pre-Reformation German Milieu / Steimann, Ilona
  • Johannes Reuchlin's Collection of Hebrew Books - Its Afterlife and Influence / Leicht, Reimund
  • Matters of Provenance: Hebrew Manuscripts Owned by a Distinguished French Archbishop / Tahan, Ilana
  • Jacob Georg Christian Adler (1756-1834) and his Books / Vollandt, Ronny
  • Materials Studies
  • Building a Bridge from the Dead Sea Scrolls to Mediaeval Hebrew Manuscripts / Rabin, Ira
  • Composition Analysis of Writing Materials in Geniza Fragments / Cohen, Zina / Olszowy-Schlanger, Judith / Hahn, Oliver / Rabin, Ira
  • 'Write on Three Ribs of a Sheep': Writing Materials in Ancient and Mediaeval Jewish Magic / Rebiger, Bill
  • Cultural Studies
  • Codex hebraicus 18 and Codex hebraicus 53 in the Hamburg State and University Library - 'Corrected by Yiṣḥaq of Arles' / Reeg, Gottfried
  • The Pillars of Exile by R. Yiṣḥaq of Corbeil: The Small Book of Commandments in Codex hebraicus 17, State and University Library Hamburg / Kaufmann, Ingrid
  • Pictorial Messages in Mediaeval Illuminated Hebrew Books: Some Methodological Considerations / Kogman-Appel, Katrin
  • List of Contributors
  • Index of manuscripts