Jewish Manuscript Cultures: New Perspectives

Open Access Published by De Gruyter 2017

Jewish Manuscript Cultures

New Perspectives

Edited by: Irina Wandrey

Volume 13 in the series Studies in Manuscript Cultures

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110546422

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About this book

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 explore various fields of research on Hebrew manuscripts. They show paradigmatically the current developments concerning codicology and palaeography, book forms like the scroll and codex, scribes and their writing material, patrons, collectors and censors, manuscript and book collections, illuminations and fragments, and, last but not least, new methods of material analysis applied to manuscripts.

The principal focus of this volume is the material and intellectual history of Hebrew book cultures from antiquity to the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period, its intention being to heighten and sharpen the reader’s understanding of Jewish social and cultural history in general.

Author / Editor information

Irina Wandrey, University of Hamburg.

Topics

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Preface Irina Wandrey Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Codicology and Palaeography
From the Archaeological Turn to ‘Codicologie Structurale’: The Concept of Codicology and the Material Description of Hebrew Manuscripts Javier del Barco Publicly Available Download PDF	3
Scribal Aspects of the Manufacturing and Writing of the Qumran Scrolls Emanuel Tov Publicly Available Download PDF	29
The Anatomy of Non-biblical Scrolls from the Cairo Geniza Judith Olszowy-Schlanger Publicly Available Download PDF	49
A Pentateuch to Read in? The Secrets of the Regensburg Pentateuch Hanna Liss Publicly Available Download PDF	89
Editing
Shedding Light on Metatron – Recently Discovered Fragments of Mystical Writings in Germany Andreas Lehnardt Publicly Available Download PDF	131
On the History of Editing Pre-Modern Yiddish Manuscript Texts Diana Matut Publicly Available Download PDF	155
Collections
The Preservation of Hebrew Books by Christians in the Pre-Reformation German Milieu Ilona Steimann Publicly Available Download PDF	203
Johannes Reuchlin’s Collection of Hebrew Books – Its Afterlife and Influence Reimund Leicht Publicly Available Download PDF	227
Matters of Provenance: Hebrew Manuscripts Owned by a Distinguished French Archbishop Ilana Tahan Publicly Available Download PDF	243
Jacob Georg Christian Adler (1756–1834) and his Books Ronny Vollandt Publicly Available Download PDF	275
Materials Studies
Building a Bridge from the Dead Sea Scrolls to Mediaeval Hebrew Manuscripts Ira Rabin Publicly Available Download PDF	309
Composition Analysis of Writing Materials in Geniza Fragments Zina Cohen, Judith Olszowy-Schlanger, Oliver Hahn and Ira Rabin Publicly Available Download PDF	323
‘Write on Three Ribs of a Sheep’: Writing Materials in Ancient and Mediaeval Jewish Magic Bill Rebiger Publicly Available Download PDF	339
Cultural Studies
Codex hebraicus 18 and Codex hebraicus 53 in the Hamburg State and University Library – ‘Corrected by Yiṣḥaq of Arles’ Gottfried Reeg Publicly Available Download PDF	363
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 Publicly Available Download PDF	421
Pictorial Messages in Mediaeval Illuminated Hebrew Books: Some Methodological Considerations Katrin Kogman-Appel Publicly Available Download PDF	443
List of Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	469
Index of manuscripts Publicly Available Download PDF	473

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars, instutes and libraries (Jewish studies; Textual scholorship; Cultural studies)
Pages
- Front matter: 10
- Main content: 484
Keywords: Hebrew manuscripts; production and use of manuscripts; Jewish cultural history

eBook

Published: December 18, 2017
ISBN: 9783110546422

Hardcover

Published: December 18, 2017
ISBN: 9783110546392