RT Book
T1 Scribal habits in Near Eastern manuscript traditions
T2 Texts and studies
JF Texts and studies
A2 Kiraz, George Anton 1965-
A2 Schmidtke, Sabine
LA English
PP Piscataway, NJ
PB Gorgias Press
YR 2021
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1800528752
AB Most scholars who employ manuscripts in their research tend to focus on the literary content itself. But what about the role of the scribe who typically remains at the periphery of research? How can we, in the words of the NT textual critic James Royse, “virtually look over the scribe’s shoulder” to understand the process by which our manuscripts were produced? Moreover, manuscripts often contain far more material than the words that form their primary texts: dots and various other symbols that mark vowels (in the case of Semitic languages), intonation, readings aids, and other textual markers; marginal notes and sigla that provide additional explanatory content akin to but substantially different from our modern notes and endnotes; images and illustrations that present additional material not found in the main text. These extratextual (or peritextual) elements add additional layers to the main body of the text and are crucial for our understanding of the text’s transmission history as well as scribal habits. This volume brings together contributions by scholars focussing on such extra-, peritextual elements as found in Middle Eastern manuscripts written in Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic, Persian and other languages, to study the individuals who produced our manuscripts and how they shaped the transmission of literary texts they copied.
CN Z242.P37
SN 9781463241964
K1 Manuscripts : Middle East : Editing
K1 Marginalia : Middle East : History
K1 Middle Eastern literature : Criticism, Textual
K1 Paratext : Middle East : History
K1 Scribes : Middle East : History
K1 Transmission of texts : Middle East : History
K1 Ancient Languages
K1 FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY
K1 General
K1 FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Ancient Languages (see also Latin)
K1 Aufsatzsammlung
DO 10.31826/9781463241964