The Hebrew Bible Manuscripts A Millennium

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004499334
Total Pages : 485 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hebrew Bible Manuscripts: A Millennium written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Hebrew Bible: A Millennium, manuscripts, texts, and methods applied in Hebrew Bible studies are considered through time. The Dead Sea Scrolls, the Cairo and European Genizot, as well as Late Medieval Biblical Manuscripts are examined.

Author : Cambridge University Library
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521816120
Total Pages : 598 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hebrew Bible Manuscripts in the Cambridge Genizah Collections: Volume 3, Taylor-Schechter Additional Series 1-31 written by Cambridge University Library and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehensive catalogue of Hebrew Bible fragments in the Taylor-Schechter Additional Series, describing 14,679 items.

Author : Matti Friedman
Publisher : Algonquin Books
ISBN 13 : 161620270X
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Aleppo Codex written by Matti Friedman and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2013-05-14 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2014 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature A thousand years ago, the most perfect copy of the Hebrew Bible was written. It was kept safe through one upheaval after another in the Middle East, and by the 1940s it was housed in a dark grotto in Aleppo, Syria, and had become known around the world as the Aleppo Codex. Journalist Matti Friedman’s true-life detective story traces how this precious manuscript was smuggled from its hiding place in Syria into the newly founded state of Israel and how and why many of its most sacred and valuable pages went missing. It’s a tale that involves grizzled secret agents, pious clergymen, shrewd antiquities collectors, and highly placed national figures who, as it turns out, would do anything to get their hands on an ancient, decaying book. What it reveals are uncomfortable truths about greed, state cover-ups, and the fascinating role of historical treasures in creating a national identity.

Author : Joel ben Simeon
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674051173
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Washington Haggadah written by Joel ben Simeon and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-11 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the Bible, the Passover haggadah is the most widely read classic text in the Jewish tradition. More than four thousand editions have been published since the late fifteenth century, but few are as exquisite as the Washington Haggadah, which resides in the Library of Congress. Now, a stunning facsimile edition meticulously reproduced in full color brings this beautiful illuminated manuscript to a new generation. Joel ben Simeon, the creator of this unusually well-preserved codex, was among the most gifted and prolific scribe-artists in the history of the Jewish book. David Stern’s introduction reconstructs his professional biography and situates this masterwork within the historical development of the haggadah, tracing the different forms the text took in the Jewish centers of Europe at the dawn of modernity. Katrin Kogman-Appel shows how ben Simeon, more than just a copyist, was an active agent of cultural exchange. As he traveled between Jewish communities, he brought elements of Ashkenazi haggadah illustration to Italy and returned with stylistic devices acquired during his journeys. In addition to traditional Passover images, realistic illustrations of day-to-day life provide a rare window into the world of late fifteenth-century Europe. This edition faithfully preserves the original text, with the Hebrew facsimile appearing in the original right-to-left orientation. It will be read and treasured by anyone interested in Jewish history, medieval illuminated manuscripts, and the history of the haggadah.

Author : Wonil Kim
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9781563383267
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reading the Hebrew Bible for a New Millennium, Volume 2 written by Wonil Kim and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays that examines the Hebrew Bible using the methodology of Rolf P. Knierim of the Institute for Antiquity & Christianity in Claremont, CA.

Author : Hayim Tawil
Publisher : Jewish Publication Society
ISBN 13 : 0827609574
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crown of Aleppo written by Hayim Tawil and published by Jewish Publication Society. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Crown of Aleppo, Hayim Tawil and Bernard Schneider tell the incredible story of the survival, against all odds, of the Aleppo Codex—one of the most authoritative and accurate traditional Masoretic texts of the Bible. Completed circa 939 in Tiberias, the Crown was created by exacting Tiberian scribes who copied the entire Bible into book form, adding annotations, vowel and cantillation marks, and precise commentary. Praised by Torah scholars for centuries after its writing, the Crown passed through history until the 15th century when it was housed in the Great Synagogue of Aleppo, Syria. When the synagogue was burned in the 1947 pogrom, the codex was thought to be destroyed, lost forever. That is where its great mystery begins. Miraculously, a significant portion of the Crown of Aleppo survived the fire and was smuggled from the synagogue ruins to an unknown location— presumably within the Aleppan Jewish community. Ten years later, the surviving pages of the codex were secretly brought to Israel and finally moved to their current location in the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. "

Author : Ilana Tahan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hebrew Manuscripts written by Ilana Tahan and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Highlighting the vibrant interplay between work and image, Tahan traces the development of Sephardi and Ashkenazi scripts, as well as the increased use of images, such as micrographic motifs, created out of minute script. By close analysis of individual folios, Tahan shows how scribes emphasized sacred words and phrases, enhancing and adorning the script. Illustrates with over 145 colour examples - some shown here for the first time - Hewbrew Manuscripts will appeal to all art lovers."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Patrick William Skehan
Publisher : Discoveries in the Judaean Des
ISBN 13 : 9780198263289
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Palaeo-Hebrew and Greek Biblical Manuscripts written by Patrick William Skehan and published by Discoveries in the Judaean Des. This book was released on 1992 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume inaugurates the publication of the Dead Sea Scrolls from the main collection discovered in Cave 4 at Qumran. It continues six biblical manuscripts written in ancient Palaeo-hebrew script, four Septuagint manuscripts, and five hitherto unknown compositions. The Hebrew texts antedate by a millennium what had previously been the earliest surviving biblical codices in the original language, and they document the pluriform nature of the ancient biblical textual tradition before the text became standardized. The most extensive and significant manuscript exhibits the expanded textual tradition that formed the basis for the Samaritan Pentateuch and helps illuminate the historical and theological relationship between the Jews and Samaritans.

Author : Phillip R. Callaway
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1621893375
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dead Sea Scrolls for a New Millennium written by Phillip R. Callaway and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2011-11-14 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Dead Sea Scrolls for a New Millennium, Phillip R. Callaway presents the most comprehensive survey of the Dead Sea Scrolls since the final publication of the cave 4 fragments. The chapters on editing the Scrolls, on the caves, on the scrolls, and on Khirbet Qumran present the evidence without getting bogged down in older controversies. Callaway discusses the so-called yahad ostracon, as well as a fascinating writing exercise, and the supposed Dead Sea Scroll on stone. Those who desire to know more about the Bible among the Scrolls are offered brief comments on over one hundred readings from Qumran's biblical manuscripts and other biblical texts. In the chapter on the pseudepigrapha and apocrypha, Callaway emphasizes the rich literary production of the mid- to late Second Temple period, with sections on Enoch, Jubilees, the Genesis Apocryphon, a Genesis commentary, the Reworked Pentateuch, targums on Leviticus and Job, the Temple Scroll, the New Jerusalem, an Apocryphon of Joshua, the psalms, various works of wisdom, Tobit, Ben Sira, the Epistle of Jeremiah, and the Greek fragments from cave 7. The chapter on the Community Scrolls deals with the Damascus Document, the Rule of the Community and its appendages, a Hybrid Rule, the Rule of War, the Thanksgiving Hymns, Florilegium, Testimonia, Melchizedek, the pesher commentaries on Habakkuk, Nahum, and Psalm 37, Ordinances, Calendar texts, Some Works of the Law, the Angelic Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice, and the phylacteries. In terms of the Scrolls and Jewish history, Callaway discusses the text called Praise for Jerusalem and King Jonathan, the Copper Scroll, the documentary texts (which may or may not be from Qumran), the history of the Qumran community, and some similarities to early Christian thought and language. In addition to clarifying discussions of all the works mentioned above, the author hopes that The Dead Sea Scrolls for a New Millennium will help readers understand the Scrolls not as the product of a radical, separatist community, but rather as the literary heritage of many of the greatest Jewish minds that lived in the Second Temple period.

Author : Edward D. Herbert
Publisher : London : British Library
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bible as Book written by Edward D. Herbert and published by London : British Library. This book was released on 2002 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume charts the extraordinary developments witnessed over the last fifty years, since the chance discovery in 1947 of biblical scrolls in a cave in the vicinity of the Dead Sea. This collection of articles represents cutting-edge research by an international team of scholars. Together, they chart the findings and controversies sparked off by the discovery and publication of some 900 scrolls which have transformed our understanding of the state of the biblical text at the turn of the last millennium. Publication date is November 2002.