The Bible Text in the Manuscripts with Babylonian-Yemenite Vocalization: Collection of the Textual Variants (DFG)

Funded by the German Research Foundation, 2015–20

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Current Staff Member:

Prof. Dr. Hanna Liss together with PD Dr. Gianfranco Miletto

Project Description:

The aim of the project is the complete collection and computerization of textual variants of the Biblical manuscripts of the Babylonian and Yemenite tradition. The reading variants should then be compared with other ancient textual witnesses (Samaritan text, the LXX and the other Greek translations, Peshitta, and Vulgate Vetus Latina and Targumim) and classified in their historical context. The analysis of these variants will open a new perspective for the reconstruction of the biblical text story and make available a hitherto unexplored material which grants new insights into the historical development of the biblical text, both in its pre-Masoretic and in its Masoretic period.