Scribal practices and approaches reflected in the texts found in the Judean desert /

Scribal practices and approaches reflected in the texts found in the Judean desert /

This monograph is written in the form of a handbook on the scribal features of the texts found in the Judean Desert (the Dead Sea Scrolls). It deals in detail with the material, shape, and preparation of the scrolls; scribes and scribal activity; scripts, writing conventions, errors and their correc...

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Main Author: Tov, Emanuel.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2004.

Series: Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah 54.
Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah Online, ISBN: 9789004378346.

Subjects:

Dead Sea scrolls.
Manuscripts > Judaea, Wilderness of.
Scribes, Jewish.
Hebrew language > Writing.
Aramaic language > Writing.
Transmission of texts.
Codicology.
Manuscripts.
Middle East > Wilderness of Judaea.

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Call Number: BM487 .T6 2004

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction
  • Scribes
  • Writing and Writing Materials
  • Technical Aspects of Scroll Writing
  • Writing Practices
  • Scripts
  • Special Scribal Characteristics of Some Groups of Texts
  • Scribal Traditions
  • Characteristic Features of the Qumran Scribal Practice
  • Papyrus Texts from the Judean Desert
  • Opisthographs from the Judean Desert
  • The Greek Texts from the Judean Desert346
  • Scribal Features of Early Witnesses of Greek Scripture
  • The Hebrew Texts from Masada
  • Scope and Spacing of the Units in the Biblical Text Quoted in the Pesharim
  • Scribal Features of Biblical Manuscripts
  • Orthographic and Morphological Features of Texts Written in the Qumran Scribal Practice
  • Bibliography
  • Figures
  • Index I: Ancient Sources
  • Index II: Subjects
  • Illustrations.