Bible as Notepad: Tracing Annotations and Annotation Practices in Late Antique and Medieval Biblical Manuscripts

168 Pages·2018·3.594 MB·English

by  Lied, Liv Ingeborg, Maniaci, Marilena

Bible as Notepad
Manuscripta Biblica

Edited by
Martin Wallraff and Patrick Andrist
Volume 3
Bible as Notepad
Tracing Annotations and Annotation Practices in
Late Antique and Medieval Biblical Manuscripts
Edited by
Liv Ingeborg Lied and Marilena Maniaci
ISBN 978-3-11-060226-5
e-ISBN (PDF) 978-3-11-060347-7
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Lied, Liv Ingeborg, editor.
Title: Bible as notepad : tracing annotations and annotation practices in
late antique and medieval biblical manuscripts / edited by Liv Ingeborg
Lied and Marilena Maniaci.
Description: 1 [edition].. | Boston : Walter de Gruyter, 2018. | Series:
Manuscripta Biblica ; Volume 3 | Includes bibliographical references and
index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018010539 (print) | LCCN 2018027503 (ebook) | ISBN
9783110603477 | ISBN 9783110602265 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Bible--Manuscripts. | Manuscripts, Medieval.
Classification: LCC BS4.5 (ebook) | LCC BS4.5 .B535 2018 (print) | DDC
220.4--dc23
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Dedicated to the voices in the margins

Preface and acknowledgements
The present volume aims to provide a comparative look
at the contents and layout features of secondary anno-
tations in biblical manuscripts across manuscript tradi-
tions. These annotations, and the practices that produced
them, have not received the attention they deserve. It is
our hope that this collection of essays will display some of
the vast richness that accompanies the biblical texts in the
margins of the manuscript pages.
Most of the collected articles were first presented at
the conference “Bible as Notepad,” held at MF Norwegian
School of Theology in Oslo, 10–12 December 2014.
We would like to thank the series editors Patrick Andrist
and Martin Wallraff and the publisher, Walter de Gruyter—
in particular Stefan Selbmann and Anett Rehner—for all
of their work. We are grateful to Matthew P. Monger for
co- organizing the conference from which many of the con-
tributions were drawn, and to our editorial assistant, Per
Kristian Sætre, for finalizing the bibliographies. Most of
all, we are thankful to the contributors to the volume for
the lively discussions in Oslo and all the efforts made to
approach a still relatively unexplored and highly fascinat-
ing field from different, but converging perspectives.
Oslo and Rome, December 2017
Liv Ingeborg Lied and Marilena Maniaci
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110603477-201

Contents
List of contributors   XI
Liv Ingeborg Lied
Bible as notepad: Exploring annotations and annotation practices in biblical manuscripts   1
Daniel K. Falk
In the margins of the Dead Sea Scrolls   10
Kipp Davis
Margins as media: The long insertion in 4QJera (4Q70)  39
Paola Buzi
Additional notes in Christian Egyptian biblical manuscripts (fourth–eleventh centuries): Brief remarks   54
Jeff W. Childers
Divining gospel: Classifying manuscripts of John used in sortilege   66
Marilena Maniaci
Written evidence in the Italian Giant Bibles: Around and beyond the sacred text   85
Nurit Pasternak
Giannozzo Manetti’s handwritten notes in his Hebrew Bibles   101
Adam Carter Bremer-McCollum
Notes and colophons of scribes and readers in Georgian biblical manuscripts from
Saint Catherine’s Monastery (Sinai)   111
Loren T. Stuckenbruck and Ted M. Erho
EMML 8400 and notes on the reading of Hēnok in Ethiopia   125
Patrick Andrist
Toward a definition of paratexts and paratextuality: The case of ancient Greek manuscripts   130
List of quoted manuscripts   151