Jewish manuscript cultures : : new perspectives /

Jewish manuscript cultures : : new perspectives / / edited by Irina Wandrey.

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"This volume focuses on the status of research on Hebrew manuscript culture and includes manuscripts written in other Jewish scripts or languages such as Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic or Yiddish. The work spans 16 academic papers dealing with the state of the art in areas such as codicology and palaeo...

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Wandrey, Irina,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter,, [2017]
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (x, 484 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface / Irina Wandrey
  • Codicology and palaeography
  • From the archaeological turn to 'codicologie structurale' : the concept of codicology and the material description of Hebrew manuscripts / Javier del Barco
  • Scribal aspects of the manufacturing and writing of the Qumran scrolls / Emanuel Tov
  • The anatomy of non-biblical scrolls from the Cairo Geniza / Judith Olszowy-Schlanger
  • A Pentateuch to read in? : the secrets of the Regensburg Pentateuch / Hanna Liss
  • Editing
  • Shedding light on Metatron : recently discovered fragments of mystical writings in Germany / Andreas Lehnardt
  • On the history of editing pre-modern Yiddish manuscript texts / Diana Matut
  • Collections
  • The preservation of Hebrew books by Christians in the pre-reformation German milieu / Ilona Steimann
  • Johannes Reuchlin's collection of Hebrew books : its afterlife and influence / Reimund Leicht
  • Matters of provenance : Hebrew manuscripts owned by a distinguished French archbishop / Ilana Tahan
  • Jacob Georg Christian Adler (1756-1834) and his books / Ronny Vollandt
  • Materials studies
  • Building a bridge from the Dead Sea scrolls to mediaeval Hebrew manuscripts / Ira Rabin
  • Composition analysis of writing materials in Geniza fragments / Zina Cohen, Judith Olszowy-Schlanger, Oliver Hahn, Ira Rabin
  • 'Write on three ribs of a sheep' : writing materials in ancient and mediaeval Jewish magic / Bill Rebiger
  • Cultural studies
  • Codex hebraicus 18 and Codex hebraicus 53 in the Hamburg State and University Library : 'corrected by Yiṣḥaq of Arles' / Gottfried Reeg
  • The pillars of exile by R. Yiṣḥaq of Corbeil : the small book of commandments in Codex hebraicus 17, State and University Library Hamburg / Ingrid Kaufmann
  • Pictorial messages in mediaeval illuminated Hebrew books : some methodological considerations / Katrin Kogman-Appel.

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