The Biblical Masorah and the Temple Scroll: An Orthographical Inquiry - Hardcover

Jacobs, Steven Leonard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0761823069 ISBN 13: 9780761823063

Publisher: University Press of America, 2002

Synopsis

The Temple Scroll, the last of the Dead Sea Scrolls found in 1967, contains two phenomena that are at variance with the Jewish tradition. Professor Jacobs presents a thorough study of ligature writing or "joined letters" and the insertion of both words and phrases between the lines of the text in The Biblical Masorah and the Temple Scroll.

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Synopsis:

In his doctoral dissertation for the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati, Jacobs (religious studies, U. of Alabama) examines the Temple Scroll, the last of the Dead Sea Scrolls to be found (1967), and its place in biblical scholarship; the writing in that and in the Halakha and Masorah texts; and dating the text and othe

About the Author:

Steven Leonard Jacobs, Aaron Aronov Chair of Judaic Studies at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, has taught Jewish, Holocaust [Shoah], and Biblical Studies at Calhoun Community College, Oakwood College, University of Alabama, Huntsville, Alabama; Mississippi State University, Starkville, Mississippi; and Martin Methodist College, Tennessee.

About this edition

• Publisher: University Press of America
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0761823069
• ISBN 13: 9780761823063
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 154