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Martin Luther’s Hebrew in Mid-Career. The Minor Prophets Translation.
(2018-07-21)This dissertation provides a comprehensive account of Martin Luther’s Hebrew translation in his academic mid-career. Apart from the Psalms, no book of the Hebrew Bible has yet been examined in any comprehensive manner in ... -
Open Proverbs: Exploring Genre and Openness in Proverbs 10:1-22:16
(2018-07-20)This thesis has three main aims. First, I will propose and explain a genre ascription for the sayings in Prov 10:1-22:16 – the ‘didactic proverb’. Second, I will analyse ‘openness’ as a textual feature, and show its ... -
THE MASORA MAGNA OF TWO BIBLICAL FRAGMENTS FROM THE CAIRO GENIZAH, AND THE UNUSUAL PRACTICE OF THE SCRIBE BEHIND THE LENINGRAD CODEX
(Tyndale House Publishers, 2016-11-01)As a rule, no two Tiberian Bibles are alike when it comes to their masoretic notes. Indeed, the masora magna notes can be thought of as part of the unique fingerprint of each individual manuscript. Notwithstanding, this ... -
Takkanot Kandiyah – A collection of legislative statutes as a source for the assessment of laymen’s legal authority in a Jewish community in Venetian Crete
(2016-04-23)The dissertations offers an analysis of Takkanot Kandiyah, a corpus of communal statutes from the Jewish community in Candia, the capital of Venetian Crete. These texts were written between 1228 and 1583 and collected as ...
