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The Masorah of Elijah ha-Naqdan : an edition of Ashkenazic micrographical notes / Elodie Attia, editor.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Attia, Élodie, Author.
- Series:
- Materiale Textkulturen ; Band 11.
- Materiale Textkulturen ; Band 11
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Elijah ben Berechiah, ha-Naqdan, active 13th century--Knowledge--Masorah.
- Elijah ben Berechiah.
- Biblioteca apostolica vaticana--Manuscript--Vat. ebr. 14.
- Biblioteca apostolica vaticana.
- Bible. Exodus--Selections--Criticism, Textual.
- Bible.
- Masorah.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (161 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Biography/History:
- Élodie Attia, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg.
- Summary:
- Following Levita's statement, the Masorah transmitted by medieval illuminated manuscripts was generally considered as less significant for the study of the biblical and masoretical knowledge in the Jewish world. The biblical codices produced in Ashkenaz were considerably disregarded compared to Spanish codices. Challenging this assertion, this work engages in a reflection on the link between the standard Eastern tradition and the Ashkenazic biblical text-culture of the 13th century. Élodie Attia provides an edition of thirteen cases taken from MS Vat. Ebr. 14, offering the oldest series of Masoretic notes written inside figurative and ornamental designs. Its critical apparatus offers an unprecedented comparison with the oldest Eastern and Ashkenazic sources to evaluate if the scribe paid more attention to aesthetic details than to the textual contents. In an unexpected way, the Masoretic notes of Elijah ha-Naqdan, even written in figurative forms, show a close philological link with the Masorah of the eastern Tiberian sources and prove that the presence of figurative elements neither represents a loss nor a distortion of Masoretic knowledge, but rather illustrates a development in the Masoretic tradition.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Prologue
- Introduction
- Edition
- Concluding Remarks
- Appendices
- Publication bibliography
- Credits
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- This eBook is made available Open Access. Unless otherwise specified individually in the content, the work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0 https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9783110417920
- 3110417928
- 9783110425314
- 3110425319
- OCLC:
- 979583909
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