Reading performance and materiality in Hebrew and Aramaic traditions edited by Hector M. Patmore [and four others]

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Patmore, Hector M., editor.

Conference Name:

Reading: Performance and Materiality in Hebrew and Aramaic Traditions (Colloquium) (2023 : University of Oxford), author.

Series:

Cambridge Semitic languages and cultures ; 36.

Cambridge semitic languages and cultures 2632-6914 36

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible. Old Testament.

Reading.

Judaism--Liturgy--Texts.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Conference papers and proceedings

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK Open Book Publishers [2025]

Summary:

"This volume contains the proceedings the 'Reading: Performance and Materiality in Hebrew and Aramaic Traditions' colloquium, hosted at the University of Oxford in 2023, and jointly sponsored by the Oriel Centre for the Study of the Bible and the European Research Council project, 'TEXTEVOLVE.' The aim of the colloquium was to investigate Jewish approaches to the reading of texts, with a focus on reading practices that were applied to Hebrew and Aramaic texts in antiquity and the early Middle Ages. It explored, in particular, how these were shaped by material and non-textual aspects (oral traditions, performative context, philological values, etc). Among the questions it addressed were: How did non-textual components determine reading? To what extent did materiality shape or limit readings? How did reading practices shape the texts themselves? What values guided how texts were modified and variant texts evaluated? What determined which form or version of a text was read and according to what conventions? The responses to these questions collected in this volume highlight the tensions between authority and creativity, preservation and innovation, understanding and misapprehension, knowledge and ignorance, which shaped Jewish practices of reading"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Adaption and creativity in the Tiberian reading tradition of the Hebrew Bible / Geoffrey Khan

The double nature of the text of the Hebrew Bible / Harald Samuel

Layout and meaning : stichography in Hebrew manuscripts; the case of Psalm 83 in Mas le and the Hebrew manuscripts of Ben Sira / Frédérique Michèle Rey, Sophie Robert-Hayek, Davide D'Amico

The vorlage of LXX Ezekiel : orthographic features, phonetic circumstances, and reading practice / Martin Tscheu

Reading and articulation in ancient Jewish texts / Hindy Najman

Reading the fifth song of the Sabbath sacrifice against the loss of its performative tradition / Noam Mizrahi

Teaching the sinners' : a motif and its application in 4Q372 1 / Amrei Koch

Praise as exorcism and exorcism as praise : writing for supernatural audiences in the hymns of the Maskil and late-antique Jewish 'magic' / Dorota Molin

Philology and the evolution of the Palestinian Targum / Hector M. Patmore

The rabbinic use for translation / Willem Smelik

To read or not to read : practicing (non-)reading Targum in medieval Europe / Shlomi Efrati

On the shores of the Red Sea : a medieval reconstruction of Palestinian Targum? / Jeroen Verrijssen

Pseudo-Jonathan as a European Targum : clues from Pirqe de-Rabbi Eliezer / Gavin McDowell

From פשטיה דקרא to פשוטו של מקרא : the origins of Peshat commentary in eleventh and twelfth century rabbinic exegesis / Robert Harris

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's website, viewed July 31, 2025)

ISBN:

9781805115502

1805115502

OCLC:

1528869534

Access Restriction:

Some versions Open access versions available from some providers open access