Notes on the Orthography of the Shapira Manuscripts: The Forger’s Marks
The Shapira manuscripts, putatively precursors of Deuteronomy, have many indications of forgery, particularly in the orthography, which mixes the writing conventions of the Mesha stele and the Hebrew Bible. Notably, the consistent use of waw , instead of he , to mark final ō is an anachronism. These...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | German |
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2021
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Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft
Year: 2021, Volume: 133, Issue: 2, Pages: 225-230 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Mesha Moab, King
/ Victory stele
/ Forgery
/ Deuteronomium
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| IxTheo Classification: | HB Old Testament |
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| Summary: | The Shapira manuscripts, putatively precursors of Deuteronomy, have many indications of forgery, particularly in the orthography, which mixes the writing conventions of the Mesha stele and the Hebrew Bible. Notably, the consistent use of waw , instead of he , to mark final ō is an anachronism. These problems were not perceivable by the text’s nineteenth century critics (or its forgers), but in hindsight are clear marks of the forger’s art. |
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| ISSN: | 1613-0103 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1515/zaw-2021-2008 |