RT Book
T1 Scribal memory and word selection: text criticism of the Hebrew Bible
T2 Text-Critical Studies
A1 Person, Raymond F. 1961-
LA English
PP Atlanta
PB Society of Biblical Literature
YR 2023
ED 1st ed.
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1853845337
AB 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.
AB "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
OP 369
NO Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources
CN BS1178.H4
SN 978-1-62837-334-9
K1 Bible : Old Testament : Criticism, Textual
K1 Bible - Critique textuelle
K1 Bible
K1 Hebrew language : Variation
K1 Cognitive grammar
K1 Grammaire cognitive
K1 Criticism, interpretation, etc