Scribal Wit
Aramaic Mnemonics in the Leningrad Codex
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Gorgias Press
Published:7th Dec '13
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
This book presents a detailed analysis of the Aramaic mnemonics, those short witty sentences written in Aramaic as memory aids in the margins of one of the oldest extant biblical Hebrew manuscripts, the Leningrad Codex (1008 CE). The material is presented in clear, user-friendly charts. Each mnemonic is set alongside the Hebrew verses it represents. This book demonstrates the ingenuity of the Masoretes in their grand endeavor to preserve the text of the Hebrew Bible precisely in the form that it had reached them.
ISBN: 9781611439045
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198 pages