Samaritan Scribes and Manuscripts

1. Auflage 2000
ISBN: 978-3-16-147490-3
Verlag: Mohr Siebeck

Buch, Englisch, Band 80, 555 Seiten, Format (B × H): 242 mm x 163 mm, Gewicht: 991 g

Reihe: Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism

"This book aims to provide the critical tools to help scholars in their use of Samaritan manuscripts. The basic codicological tools is a series of complementary data-bases compiled from typological studies of the physical properties of manuscripts. Each typology is in effect a diachronic profile created by painstaking comparison and analysis of the physical properties of manuscripts of known provenance and/or date. Using these typologies or diachronic profiles it is possible to evaluate the chronology of the physical characteristics of any manuscript - the quire or gathering structure, ink, ruling, spacing of the text on the folio, sewing of the sections. Naturally, the more information available about the physical properties of any manuscript the better the chance of making correlations between the typologies of different properties.The basic rule in palaeography and codicology is that the researcher works on an inductive basis from as wide a sample as possible of dated manuscripts. It is hoped that in the studies in this volume, evidence has been provided which will serve as a guide both to the appearance and the nature of Samaritan manuscripts and to the evaluative process that one would employ in examining them for codicological purposes. The reader should be able to apply the criteria provided here to the evaluation of whatever data can be retrieved from any undated Samaritan manuscripts with which he is confronted." Alan D. Crown in the preface

Autoren/Hrsg.

Crown, Alan D.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Geschichte des Judentums Geschichte des Judentums: Biblische & Klassische Periode
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften Neues Testament: Exegese, Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
- Abbreviations and Symbols
Samaritan Literature and its Manuscripts
- The Codicology of Samaritan Manuscripts
- Paper in Samaritan Manuscripts
- Prices of Samaritan Manuscripts
- Samaritan Majuscule Palaeography
- Samaritan Minuscule Palaeography
- Problems in Epigraphy and Palaeography
- Samaritan manuscripts and Cast Type
- Samaritan Bindings
- An Index of Samaritan Scribes
- The Rate of Writing of Samaritan Scribes. Columnar Writing and the Samaritan Masorah

Über Autor(innen)

Crown, Alan D.
Born 1932; 1966 PhD; since 1985 Head of the Department of Semitic Studies, University of Sydney; 1990-97 Professor (Personal Chair) at the University of Sydney; since 1997 Emeritus Professor of the University of Sydney; Honorary Life Member and founder member of the Société d'Etudes Samaritaines; Senior Associate Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies.

Alan D. Crown: Born 1932; 1966 PhD; since 1985 Head of the Department of Semitic Studies, University of Sydney; 1990-97 Professor (Personal Chair) at the University of Sydney; since 1997 Emeritus Professor of the University of Sydney; Honorary Life Member and founder member of the Société d'Etudes Samaritaines; Senior Associate Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies.

Main audience: Scholars in the field of Theology, Bible Studies, Semitics, Samaritan Studies, Codicology, Jewish Studies; corresponding institutes and libraries.