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...

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Auteur principal: Ṿizel, ʿEran 1972- (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: [2017]
Dans: Journal of Jewish studies
Année: 2017, Volume: 68, Numéro: 1, Pages: 97-115
Sujets non-standardisés:B Textual Criticism
B Enlightenment
B Semantics
B Biblical Criticism
B Masorah
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Résumé: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.
ISSN:2056-6689
Contient:Enthalten in: Journal of Jewish studies
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.18647/3303/JJS-2017