TY  - BOOK
AU  - Marcus,David
TI  - Scribal Wit: Aramaic Mnemonics in the Leningrad Codex 
T2  - Texts and Studies
SN  - 9781611439045
AV  - BS715.5.L46 M37 2013
U1  - 221.4/46 23
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - Piscataway, NJ : 
PB  - Gorgias Press, 
KW  - Mnemonics
KW  - RELIGION / Biblical Studies / Old Testament
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; TABLE OF CONTENTS --; ABBREVIATIONS --; PREFACE --; CHAPTER 1: THE NATURE OF THE ARAMAIC MNEMONICS --; CHAPTER 2: HEBREW GRAMMAR AS REFLECTED IN THE MNEMONICS --; CHAPTER 3: IDENTIFICATION OF THE MNEMONICS --; CHAPTER 4: THE CORPUS OF THE ARAMAIC MNEMONICS IN ML --; EPILOGUE: PRACTICAL USE OF THE MNEMONICS --; APPENDIX A: THE LIST OF THE ARAMAIC MNEMONICS --; APPENDIX B: THE LEMMAS OF THE ARAMAIC MNEMONICS --; WORKS CITED --; INDEX OF BIBLICAL VERSES; restricted access
N2  - This book presents a detailed analysis of the Aramaic mnemonics, those short witty sentences written in Aramaic as memory aids in the margins of one of the oldest extant biblical Hebrew manuscripts, the Leningrad Codex (1008 CE). The material is presented in clear, user-friendly charts. Each mnemonic is set alongside the Hebrew verses it represents. This book demonstrates the ingenuity of the Masoretes in their grand endeavor to preserve the text of the Hebrew Bible precisely in the form that it had reached them
UR  - https://doi.org/10.31826/9781463235499
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781463235499
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ER  -