The ancient Sefer Torah of Bologna : features and history ; European Genizah texts and studies, volume four / edited by Mauro Perani.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Perani, Mauro, editor.

Series:

Studies in Jewish history and culture ; volume 59.

'European Genizah': texts and studies ; volume four.

Studies in Jewish history and culture, 1568-5004 ; volume 59

European Genizah texts and studies ; volume four

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible. Pentateuch--Hebrew--Bologna Torah Scroll.

Bible.

Bible. Pentateuch--Criticism, Textual.

Bible. Pentateuch--Manuscripts, Hebrew.

Bible. Pentateuch.

Manuscripts, Hebrew.

Bologna Torah Scroll.

Criticism, Textual.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xi, 235 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]

Summary:

"The Ancient Sefer Torah of Bologna: Features and History contains studies on the most ancient, complete, Pentateuch scroll known to date, considered by the Jews of Perpignan the archetypal autograph written by Ezra the scribe. The scroll was rediscovered by Mauro Perani in 2013 at the University Library of Bologna. In this volume, leading specialists study the history, structure and different halakhot or norms adopted in the pre-Maimonidean scroll. The Hebrew text is very close to the Aleppo codex, and the scroll was probably copied in a Kabbalistic circle near Perpignan, ca. 1200, where the use of tagin and curled letters flourished, attributing to them mystical and exoteric meanings"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Preface

The Many Lives of the 'Bible of Esdras': Proposals for a Long-term Investigation / Rita De Tata

The "Ezra Scroll" of Bologna: Vicissitudes of an Archetype between Memory and Oblivion / Saverio Campanini

Textual and Para-textual Devices of the Ancient Proto-Sephardic Bologna Torah Scroll / Mauro Perani

The Making of the Bologna Scroll: Palaeography and Scribal Traditions / Judith Olszowy-Schlanger

The 12th-13th Century Torah Scroll in Bologna

How It Differs from Contemporary Scrolls / Jordan S. Penkower

The Sefer Torah of Biella: History of the Unearthing and Initial Investigations / Amedeo Spagnoletto

Criteria for Dating the Sefer Torah Meran 1 and Its Peculiar System of Otiyyot Meshunnot / Josef M. Oesch and Franz D. Hubmann

The Torah Scroll Fragment from the Parochial Archives in Romont (Switzerland) / Justine Isserles, Josef M. Oesch and Franz D. Hubmann.

Other Format:

Online version: Ancient sefer torah of Bologna.

ISBN:

9789004415607

9004415602

OCLC:

1110124582