Textual criticism of the Bible in the writings of Jacob Reifmann: a re-evaluation
Jacob Reifmann (Poland, 1818--1895), one of the most fascinating figures of the Enlightenment in Eastern Europe, was a prolific scholar and intellectual whose books and articles cover a variety of subjects in Jewish intellectual history. Most of the scholars - scholars of Reifmann's work and sc...
| Published in: | Journal of Jewish studies |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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[2017]
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Journal of Jewish studies
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| Further subjects: | B
Textual Criticism
B Enlightenment B Semantics B Biblical Criticism B Masorah |
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| Summary: | Jacob Reifmann (Poland, 1818--1895), one of the most fascinating figures of the Enlightenment in Eastern Europe, was a prolific scholar and intellectual whose books and articles cover a variety of subjects in Jewish intellectual history. Most of the scholars - scholars of Reifmann's work and scholars of Jewish biblical research during the Enlightenment -- usually present him as someone who worked extensively on the biblical text and proposed hundreds of emendations to the traditional (Masoretic) text. As I will endeavour to show in this article, the place o f the critical study of the biblical text within Reifmann's scholarly oeuvre needs to be re-evaluated. The conclusion reached in the course of our discussion is that Reifmann in fact made only a few suggestions for emending the biblical text, while the hundreds of comments that scholars have understood as proposals for textual emendation should be understood in a different way. |
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| ISSN: | 2056-6689 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of Jewish studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.18647/3303/JJS-2017 |