Scribal memory and word selection: text criticism of the Hebrew Bible

Cover -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Note on Transcription Conventions -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Word Selection in Conversation and Oral Traditions As A Lens to Understanding Text-Critical Variants -- 2. Category-Triggering and Text-Critical Variants -- 3. Sound-Triggerin...

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Main Author: Person, Raymond F. 1961- (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Atlanta Society of Biblical Literature 2023
In:Year: 2023
Reviews:[Rezension von: Person, Raymond F., 1961-, Scribal memory and word selection : text criticism of the Hebrew Bible] (2024) (Medill, Kathryn)
Edition:1st ed.
Series/Journal:Text-Critical Studies v.15
Further subjects:B Hebrew language Variation
B Bible - Critique textuelle
B Bible. Old Testament Criticism, Textual
B Bible
B Cognitive grammar
B Grammaire cognitive
B Criticism, interpretation, etc
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Parallel Edition:Non-electronic
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Summary:Cover -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Note on Transcription Conventions -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Word Selection in Conversation and Oral Traditions As A Lens to Understanding Text-Critical Variants -- 2. Category-Triggering and Text-Critical Variants -- 3. Sound-Triggering and Text-Critical Variants -- 4. Visual-Triggering and Text-Critical Variants -- 5. Text-Critical Variants and Category-Triggering, Sound-Triggering,and Visual-Triggering: Conclusions and Implications -- Bibliography -- Ancient Sources Index -- Modern Authors Index.
"What were ancient scribes doing when they copied a manuscript of a literary work? This question is especially problematic when we realize that ancient scribes preserved different versions of the same literary texts. In Scribal Memory and Word Selection: Text Criticism of the Hebrew Bible, Raymond F. Person Jr. draws from studies of how words are selected in everyday conversation to illustrate that the same word-selection mechanisms were at work in scribal memory. Using examples from manuscripts of the Hebrew Bible, Person provides new ways of understanding the cognitive-linguistic mechanisms at work during the composition/transmission of texts. Person reveals that, while our modern perspective may consider textual variants to be different literary texts, from the perspective of the ancient scribes and their audiences, these variants could still be understood as the same literary text"--Page 4 of cover
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ISBN:1628373342