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Scribal Wit: Aramaic Mnemonics in the Leningrad Codex

By David Marcus

Book information

Publisher
Gorgias Press
Year
2013
ISBN
9781463235499
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4393709 bytes)
Pages
198\198
Time added
2023-05-28 21:56:08

Description

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.

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