A New Codex from the Scribe Behind the Leningrad Codex: L17
Samuel b. Jacob was the scribe responsible for the production of the so-called Leningrad Codex (Firkowich B19a), currently our earliest complete Masoretic Bible codex. This article demonstrates that another codex from the Firkowich Collection, containing the Former Prophets only, is also the work of...
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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[2017]
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Tyndale bulletin
Year: 2017, Volume: 68, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-29 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Handwriting (Rossijskaja Nacional'naja Biblioteka) L 17
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/ Samuel ben Jacob ca. um 1000
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| IxTheo Classification: | BH Judaism HB Old Testament TG High Middle Ages |
| Further subjects: | B
Manuscripts
Hebrew
Leningrad Codex
B Scribes Jewish B Peer reviewed B Masorah B Samuel ben Jacob B Bible. Old Testament Manuscripts B Bible. Old Testament. Versions Hebrew B Graphology |
| Parallel Edition: | Electronic
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| Summary: | Samuel b. Jacob was the scribe responsible for the production of the so-called Leningrad Codex (Firkowich B19a), currently our earliest complete Masoretic Bible codex. This article demonstrates that another codex from the Firkowich Collection, containing the Former Prophets only, is also the work of Samuel b. Jacob, despite the lack of a colophon to this effect. The argument is based on a combination of eleven textual and para-textual features shared between these two manuscripts, and other manuscripts known to have been produced by the same scribe. |
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| ISSN: | 0082-7118 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Tyndale bulletin
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