Material and digital reconstruction of fragmentary dead sea scrolls: the case of 4Q418a
Methodology -- 1 Collecting the Materials -- 2 Margin of Error -- 3 Image Manipulation -- 4 Scaling the Images -- 5 Removing the Background -- 6 Finding Information on the Verso -- 7 Finding Wads -- 8 Reading and Text Reconstruction -- 9 Recreating Single Columns Based on Fragments and Parallels --...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden Boston
Brill
[2022]
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| In: |
Studies on the texts of the desert of Judah (volume 136)
Year: 2022 |
| Series/Journal: | Studies on the texts of the desert of Judah
volume 136 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Dead Sea scrolls, Qumran Scrolls
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| IxTheo Classification: | HB Old Testament |
| Further subjects: | B
Dead Sea Scrolls 4q418a
B Dead Sea Scrolls Criticism, interpretation, etc B Qumran community |
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Table of Contents Blurb Literaturverzeichnis |
| Summary: | Methodology -- 1 Collecting the Materials -- 2 Margin of Error -- 3 Image Manipulation -- 4 Scaling the Images -- 5 Removing the Background -- 6 Finding Information on the Verso -- 7 Finding Wads -- 8 Reading and Text Reconstruction -- 9 Recreating Single Columns Based on Fragments and Parallels -- 10 Font -- Appendix 1: Experiment for Validating the Use of a Custom-Made Font, Eshbal Ratzon, Einat Tamir, and Rivkah Madmoni -- Appendix 2: Automated Font Generation, Bronson Brown deVost -- 11 Damage Patterns -- 12 Placing the Fragments on the Canvas Using the Stegemann Method -- Appendix 3: Margin of Error for Placing the Fragments on the Canvas -- 13 Using One Prepared Copy as a Skeleton for a Second Copy -- Appendix 4: Margin of Error for Chapter 13 -- 14 Introduction to the Material Study of Instruction (Musar LaMevin) --15 Re-Edition of 4Q418a --16 Material and Digital Reconstruction of 4Q418a --17 Conclusion: Movement Towards a Comprehensive Reconstruction of Instruction -- Bibliography -- Index of Scrolls. "Scholars working with ancient scrolls seek ways to extract maximum information from the multitude of fragments. Various methods were applied to that end on the Dead Sea Scrolls as well as on other ancient texts. The present book augments these methods to a full-scale protocol, while adapting them to a new computerized environment. Fundamental methodological issues are illuminated as part of the discussion, and the potential margin of error is provided on an empirical basis, as practiced in the sciences. The method is then exemplified with regard to the scroll 4Q418a, a copy of a wisdom composition from Qumran"-- |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 9004473041 |