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Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution - NonCommercial - NoDerivatives 4.0 International License Élodie Attia The Masorah of Elijah ha-Naqdan Unauthenticated Download Date | 12/29/15 11:19 AM Materiale Textkulturen Schriftenreihe des Sonderforschungsbereichs 933 Herausgegeben von Ludger Lieb Wissenschaftlicher Beirat: Jan Christian Gertz, Markus Hilgert, Bernd Schneidmüller, Melanie Trede und Christian Witschel Band 11 Unauthenticated Download Date | 12/29/15 11:19 AM Élodie Attia The Masorah of Elijah ha-Naqdan An Edition of Ashkenazic Micrographical Notes Unauthenticated Download Date | 12/29/15 11:19 AM ISBN 978-3-11-041791-3 e-ISBN (PDF) 978-3-11-041792-0 e-ISBN (EPUB) 978-3-11-042531-4 ISSN 2198-6932 Dieses Werk ist lizenziert unter der Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial- NoDerivatives 3.0 Lizenz. Weitere Informationen finden Sie unter http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/. 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Unauthenticated Download Date | 12/29/15 11:19 AM Unauthenticated Download Date | 12/29/15 11:19 AM Acknowledgements This monograph is the result of the work I carried out between October and November 2011 and between April 2012 and November 2014 while taking part in a collabora- tive research project on “Scholarly Knowledge, Drollery or Esotericism? The Masorah of the Hebrew Bible in its Various Material Properties” (B04) at the Collaborative Research Centre 933 of the Heidelberg University, which is financed by the German Research Foundation and focuses on “Material Text Cultures. Materiality and Pre- sence of Writing in Non-Typographic Societies”. I would like to extend a special thank you to my colleagues Hanna Liss and Kay Petzold for their work in this collaborative project. Sebastian Seemann assisted me with the edition of the documents, while Hannah Schachter and Margaret Rigaud-Drayton edited and proofread the English in the introductory and concluding sections of this book. My thanks also go to the advisory board of the CRC 933, as well as to the advisory board and the editor of the MTK book series who accepted this monograph for publication. Other colleagues have helped me to develop my approach through personal cor- respondence and conversations during conferences and workshops. In particular I would like to thank Justine Isserles, Katrin Kogman-Appel, Sarit Shalev-Eyni, Dalia Ruth Halperin, Judith Olszowy-Schlanger, Aron Dotan, Jordan Penkower, Philippe Cassuto, Viktor Golinets, Geoffrey Khan, Michaela Bauks and Elvira Martín Con- treras. Finally, I wish to express my gratitude to the Vatican Library (Ambrogio M. Piazzoni), the Orientabteilung of the Staatsbibliothek Berlin (Christoph Rauch), the British Library (Ilana Tahan), and the Heidelberg University Library (Veit Probst), the Institute of Hebrew Microfilm of Jerusalem (Yael Okun) for having provided me with digitized images. Unauthenticated Download Date | 12/29/15 11:20 AM Unauthenticated Download Date | 12/29/15 11:20 AM Contents Acknowledgements | VII Contents | IX Prologue | 1 Introduction | 7 Masoretic Contents versus Masoretic Layout? | 8 What is a Figurative Masorah (Masora Figurata)? | 9 Why Edit Figurative Masorah? | 11 Critical Editions of Masoretic Notes | 13 Structure of the Edition | 14 Editorial Steps for Masoretic Micrographical Notes | 15 The Manuscripts of the Critical Apparatus | 18 Expected Results | 22 Edition | 23 Editorial Rules | 25 Important Remarks to the Reader | 27 Case 1: f. 63v, Genesis 50:21–Exodus 1:10 | 29 Case 2: f. 67bisr, Exodus 5:4–5:15 | 35 Case 3: f. 72v, Exodus 9:34–10:8 | 43 Case 4: f. 75v, Exodus 12:7–12:17 | 48 Case 5: f. 77v, Exodus 13:7–13:19 | 55 Case 6: f. 85v, Exodus 20:25–21:11 | 61 Case 7: f. 89v, Exodus 24:9–25:3 | 68 Case 8: f. 93r, Exodus 26:19–26:32 | 73 Case 9: f. 98r, Exodus 30:1–30:14 | 78 Case 10: f. 100v, Exodus 32:13–32:25 | 84 Case 11: f. 101r, Exodus 32:26–33:1 | 91 Case 12: f. 104r, Exodus 35:1–35:15 | 98 Case 13: f. 113r, Exodus 40:37–Leviticus 1:10 | 103 Concluding Remarks | 109 Appendices | 115 Appendix 1: Categories of Masoretic Notes According to Shape | 117 Appendix 2: MS Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. Ebr. 14 | 119 Appendix 3: MS Berlin, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Or. Quart. 9 | 131 Appendix 4 : Statistical Results | 139 Index of Hebrew Manuscripts | 141 Index of Biblical Verses and Occurrences | 143 Subject Index | 151 Plates | 153 Publication Bibliography | 155 Credits | 163 Unauthenticated Download Date | 12/29/15 11:20 AM Unauthenticated Download Date | 12/29/15 11:20 AM Prologue The present book is an edition of micrographical Masoretic notes. I started work on this project during the first phase of the project on “Material Text Cultures” at the Collaborative Research Centre 933 of the Heidelberg University.¹ The main purpose of the Center is to promote textual anthropology in the study of material artefacts in non-typographic societies.² This rigorous theoretical and practical approach focuses on various material artefacts that display written texts, and seeks to under- stand not only the written texts themselves (as with textual philology), but also the significance of the textification and textualization³ produced by the context of their production, as well as their meaning and practical reception in the specific social and cultural backgrounds that produced the artefacts.⁴ There is therefore an active relationship between the texts (considered as philological units), the artefacts (the material objects on which the texts are written and which are operative within the social space), the producers of the textartefact (Textproduzent), and the recipients of the text (Textrezipient).⁵ Within this framework, the meaning of a written text is never “immanent”. Instead, it is the result of various human practices of reception, as when we “annotate, read, memorize, quote, extract, dramatize, illustrate, copy, comment, interpret, hide, [and] react to” a text.⁶ The focus of the Subproject B04 (“Scholarly Knowledge, Drollery or Esotericism? The Masorah of the Hebrew Bible in its Various Material Properties”) of the CRC 933 1 The Sonderforschungsbereich 933 – Materiale Textkulturen. Materialität und Präsenz des Geschriebe- nen in non-typographischen Gesellschaften is being financed by the DFG (Deutsche Forschungsge- meinschaft) between 2011 and 2015. http://www.materiale-textkulturen.org/ (seen 14.7.2014). 2 Hilgert 2010; Meier et al. 2015. 3 See Oesterreicher’s terminological distinction between Verschriftung (textification) and Verschrift- lichung (textualization): “the former applying to the shift in medium and the latter to the gradual change in conception of a discourse or discourse tradition,
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