Knowledge Commons | Textual Scholarship | Activity https://hcommons.org/groups/textual-scholarship/ Activity feed for the group, Textual Scholarship. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 03:12:38 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 5f0aff76f38b05095f98bb0bdb4c62a5 Antonio Rojas Castro deposited Nuevos retos en torno a la edición digital en la Oficina del Historiador in the group Textual Scholarship https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1897475/ Thu, 29 Aug 2024 03:00:35 -0400 Desde su establecimiento en 1938, la Oficina del Historiador de la Ciu-dad de La Habana ha sido un baluarte fundamental en la preservación y difusión del rico patrimonio cultural cubano, rescatando y rehabilitando monumentos, y creando instituciones clave como la Biblioteca Histórica Cubana y Americana y el Archivo Histórico. Del valioso ace…[Read more]

]]> 0 ec4b06af9ea3b51c09cf99188d861261 Evina Stein(ova) deposited Freising (Carolingian Minuscule Mapping Project) in the group Textual Scholarship https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1895618/ Wed, 07 Aug 2024 03:00:40 -0400 This article was prepared for the Carolingian Minuscule Mapping Project in 2016. It surveys the development of Carolingian minuscule, a Latin script used in the earlier Middle Ages, at Freising in Bavaria. The article provides an overview of manuscripts copied, corrected, or annotated in Carolingian minuscule at Freising and summarises the…[Read more]

]]> 0 cd0a5df94e4419f0b39c529ed59ad343 Marco Heiles deposited Johannes Hartlieb: Leben und Werk vor 1441 in the group Textual Scholarship https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1874403/ Fri, 02 Feb 2024 03:00:06 -0500 The identity of the Early High German author Johannes Hartlieb, who had been working as
a court physician in Munich since 1441, with a pleban of the same name who was installed in
Ingolstadt in 1436/37, was repeatedly called into question. The comparison of a letter of this
pleban with autograph documents of the Munich court physician confirms…[Read more]

]]> 0 9635d034c9d442aa2d852bbe37125b37 Anthony Cerulli deposited “Religion and Medicine in Sanskrit Literature: The Rāmāyaṇa and the Politics of an Epic Plant” in the group Textual Scholarship https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1874093/ Wed, 31 Jan 2024 03:00:47 -0500 In Vālmīki’s Sanskrit Rāmāyaṇa, in an episode I am calling ‘Hanumān’s medicine journey’, we learn about a resuscitative plant that grows in the Himalayas called saṃjīvanī. Although the plant has a somewhat unclear place in the materia medica of India’s classical ‘life science’ (āyurveda), in recent decades politicians in north India have attempte…[Read more]

]]> 0 96b751165efa7ed5c625c76ec99815de Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited Auge y caída de 'lo' judeoconverso en La Celestina: un debate en decadencia in the group Textual Scholarship https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1870977/ Sun, 14 Jan 2024 03:00:33 -0500 Mis conversaciones con Joseph T. Snow, nuestro querido Pepe Nieves, como él mismo nos insta a llamarlo desde el contacto inicial, generalmente tienen lugar en la cafetería de la Biblioteca Nacional de Madrid, un insólito locus amoenus en el cual el más habitual inquilino del pupitre 99 de la Sala María Moliner ejerce con bondad y simpatía su papel…[Read more]

]]> 0 c424a1e4c49c0f45a5ab2f6cb976c736 Antonio Rojas Castro deposited La publicación de ediciones digitales académicas y el caso de las Soledades de Luis de Góngora in the group Textual Scholarship https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1864368/ Mon, 13 Nov 2023 03:02:28 -0500 Este artículo tiene por objetivo caracterizar el proceso de publicación de ediciones digitales académicas mediante herramientas informáticas que transforman documentos XML/TEI a HTML. Tras explicar las diferencias existentes entre las webs dinámicas y las webs estáticas en el primer apartado, se exponen algunos desafíos que supone el uso de herram…[Read more]

]]> 0 9403da8f08ff746f6e773767a5c5a11e Antonio Rojas Castro deposited Cómo crear ediciones digitales académicas entre La Habana y Berlín. El caso de Proyecto Humboldt Digital (ProHD) in the group Textual Scholarship https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1864366/ Mon, 13 Nov 2023 03:02:19 -0500 Studies on the Prussian writer and naturalist Alexander von Humboldt and editions of his work are abundant. Among the many outstanding chapters of his famous journey through the American tropics, the two visits to Cuba (1800–1801/1804) stand out as a particular case. To this day very few original documents are known about his actual visits, the c…[Read more]

]]> 0 70585cb19d53a9aa88667c7c6a29c0be Antonio Rojas Castro deposited Ediciones digitales académicas: concepto, estándares de calidad y software de publicación in the group Textual Scholarship https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1864362/ Mon, 13 Nov 2023 03:01:34 -0500 Se revisa y discute el concepto de edición digital académica (EDA), así como las diversas denominaciones empleadas para hacer referencia a la misma. El estudio indaga en el alcance de los estándares de calidad planteados para este tipo de edición y explora los softwares para la publicación. Se completa el trabajo con un análisis evaluativo de una…[Read more]

]]> 0 81e95a485b7be35aecc409e52d16eb12 Evina Stein(ova) deposited Parallel Glosses, Shared Glosses, and Gloss Clustering: Can Network-Based Approach Help Us to Understand Organic Corpora of Glosses? in the group Textual Scholarship https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1864359/ Mon, 13 Nov 2023 03:01:10 -0500 Glossing was an important element of medieval western manuscript culture. However, glosses are notoriously difficult to analyze because of their triviality, fluid nature, heterogeneity of origin, complex transmission histories, and anonymity. Traditional scholarly approaches such as close reading and the genealogical method often do not produce…[Read more]

]]> 0 ef3a8b4f614f868f9680790ca745186a Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited El «Sumario del despensero» y la imagen de la política de Fernando I de Aragón con respecto a judíos y judeoconversos in the group Textual Scholarship https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1851963/ Mon, 17 Jul 2023 02:25:28 -0400 El origen de este trabajo comenzó con el examen, para el proyecto de investigación PhiloBiblon–BETA (Bibliografía Española de Textos Antiguos) , de las diversas fuentes manuscritas que conforman una pequeña crónica conocida con el nombre de Sumario del despensero de la reina Leonor (BETA texid 2851). Desde la ya muy lejana edición de Llaguno…[Read more]

]]> 0 4af8228bc40eaa97b5a012890d0c2698 Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited Lírica anticonversa de los siglos XV y XVI: el Credo glosado contra los judíos, de Juan de Carvajal in the group Textual Scholarship https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1851952/ Mon, 17 Jul 2023 02:24:31 -0400 Desde el pionero trabajo de Glaser sobre el contenido antisemita de la literatura española de los siglos XV y XVI, que continuaba la abierta por las teorías de Américo Castro al respecto, la comunidad académica ha dedicado parte de sus esfuerzos a incrementar el conocimiento de temas y obras relacionadas de alguna u otra forma con lo que, sig…[Read more]

]]> 0 5b67abc1e436e60afbeefab579600285 Gabrielle Dean started the topic Society for Textual Scholarship 2023 Conference: Design and Text in the discussion Textual Scholarship https://hcommons.org/groups/textual-scholarship/forum/topic/society-for-textual-scholarship-2023-conference-design-and-text/ Tue, 06 Dec 2022 02:18:17 -0500 The Society for Textual Scholarship welcomes proposals from textual scholars, editors, designers, curators, and digital humanists across the disciplines for its upcoming in-person conference on the theme of Design and Text, June 1-3 2023, hosted by The New School, New York, NY. For CFP guidelines, please see the attached or visit the STS website…[Read more]

]]> a8150f2e26821ba6dc5f234c7cb4bdc1 Amit Gvaryahu deposited REVIEW OF BENJAMIN PORAT, JUSTICE FOR THE POOR: THE PRINCIPLES OF WELFARE REGULATIONS, FROM BIBLICAL LAW TO RABBINIC LITERATURE in the group Textual Scholarship https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1792860/ Tue, 06 Sep 2022 02:23:47 -0400 Benjamin Porat’s Justice for the Poor differs from these books not only in that it is written in Hebrew (from the list above, only Wilfand’s 2014 book has been translated into Hebrew), but also because it envisions rabbinic charity as a branch of “law.” Porat is a law professor, and his book is jointly published by a law school, a think tank an…[Read more]

]]> 0 8525b528e2f6de760cd83fc8c144f1e7 Wout Dillen deposited DH Benelux Journal 4. The Humanities in a Digital World in the group Textual Scholarship https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1788288/ Fri, 22 Jul 2022 02:24:12 -0400 The fourth volume of the DH Benelux Journal. This volume includes seven full-length, peer-reviewed articles that are based on accepted contributions to the 2021 virtual DH Benelux conference. Contents: 1. Editors' Preface (Wout Dillen, Margherita Fantoli, Marijn Koolen, Marieke van Erp); 2. Introduction: The Humanities in a Digital World (Lorella…[Read more]

]]> 0 0832c20fea5275fc5713c133873fad91 Evina Steinova deposited Early Medieval Latin Manuscripts Transmitting the Text of the Etymologiae of Isidore of Seville [excel datasheet] in the group Textual Scholarship https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1786368/ Sun, 10 Jul 2022 02:26:21 -0400 This excel file contains structured and formalized data about all surviving and identified early medieval Western manuscripts containing the text of the Etymologiae of Isidore of Seville, fully or partially. It records information about the place of origin, provenance, preservation, the date of origin, material properties, script, content, the…[Read more]

]]> 0 c751d2fe19594bc217af9f7aab98d3c1 Evina Steinova deposited The glosses to the first book of the Etymologiae of Isidore of Seville [excel datasheet] in the group Textual Scholarship https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1786363/ Sun, 10 Jul 2022 02:25:37 -0400 This excel file contains the raw data behind the digital scholarly edition of the glosses to the first book of the Etymologiae of Isidore of Seville published at: https://db.innovatingknowledge.nl/edition

]]> 0 a8b4289237982864ccd38ec17423a6b7 Evina Steinova deposited Annotation of the Etymologiae of Isidore of Seville in Its Early Medieval Context in the group Textual Scholarship https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1786358/ Sun, 10 Jul 2022 02:24:22 -0400 This article provides an overview of the annotated pre-1200 manuscripts of the Etymologiae of Isidore of Seville and discusses the nature and character of the annotation of this work. It shows that the Etymologiae was annotated principally in the early Middle Ages. The glossing took place in three contexts: in the insular world, perhaps in the…[Read more]

]]> 0 f380c381a78766547e48d42b9d8ab5d2 Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited La Breve crónica de Juana de Castilla y la fecha de nacimiento de la princesa (1462) in the group Textual Scholarship https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1783977/ Tue, 14 Jun 2022 02:25:30 -0400 El presente trabajo pretende probar que la fecha de nacimiento de la princesa Juana de Castilla, hija de Enrique IV y de Juana de Avís, habitualmente señalada el 28 de febrero de 1462, no se produjo este día, sino una semana después, el 7 de marzo del mismo año. La fecha de febrero procede de una fuente muy tardía, como son los A…[Read more]

]]> 0 12a11a379df5f7def032f5f17335c2eb Anthony Cerulli deposited “Pedagogy, Philology, and Procedural Medical Knowledge” in the group Textual Scholarship https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1760889/ Wed, 08 Dec 2021 02:24:33 -0500 This article probes the history of education and current pedagogical practices among Malayali physician-teachers, vaidya-gurus, of Ayurveda in central Kerala. Considering the sources vaidya-gurus cite as the bases of their teaching styles, especially a three-part method known as mukhāmukhaṃ (‘face-to-face’ instruction), I discuss the place, produc…[Read more]

]]> 0 f63fe095b80e4edd34447fcfc4e0fdca Anthony Cerulli deposited "Disease: Discourse and interpretation in premodern South Asia" in the group Textual Scholarship https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1757427/ Tue, 02 Nov 2021 02:24:26 -0400 In this article, I hitch the ever-present awareness of disease in my personal life and our shared world today to a pointed and academic reflection on the ways we consume and re-present information about disease from premodern South Asia that's contained in texts.

]]> 0 27e457f99d4d20cb97c1baaf69b177be Wout Dillen deposited DH Benelux Journal 3. DH Benelux Online in the group Textual Scholarship https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1755208/ Wed, 13 Oct 2021 02:24:14 -0400 The third volume of the DH Benelux Journal. This volume includes six full-length, peer-reviewed articles that are based on accepted contributions to the 2020 virtual DH Benelux conference. Contents: 1. Editor's Preface (Wout Dillen, Marijn Koolen, Marieke van Erp); 2. Introduction: Digital Humanities Online (Antske Fokkens, Christian Gosvig…[Read more]

]]> 0 5ec51eeacbc89fee5f69583dfd6bb6f5 Carlo Morelli deposited Homologous Ipseitic Metanoias of Saint Paul and Doctoral Learners: A Biblical Exegesis Comparing the Transformative Journeys of Saint Paul and Doctoral Researchers in the group Textual Scholarship https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1751954/ Wed, 15 Sep 2021 02:24:53 -0400 This article presents biblical exegesis and parallel synthetic thematic analysis comparing the transformative journeys of Saint Paul and doctoral researchers concluding the religious conversion of Saint Paul of Tarsus and the identity-transforming journey a student undergoes from burgeoning researcher to doctoral scholar represent parallel…[Read more]

]]> 0 c2f70443d2c36ff10fce66032b25e181 Helga Müllneritsch created the doc Call for Contributions: Materiality and Use of Early Modern Manuscript Recipe Books in the group Textual Scholarship https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1750841/ Mon, 06 Sep 2021 08:05:14 -0400 14634a56fe72ac9090ef399974ee02f2 Evina Steinova deposited Two Carolingian Redactions of Isidore’s Etymologiae from St. Gallen in the group Textual Scholarship https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1746879/ Wed, 21 Jul 2021 02:25:09 -0400 The Abbey of St. Gallen was the foremost centre for the study of the Etymologiae of Isidore of Seville in the Carolingian period. Not only can more than twenty early medieval manuscripts transmitting material from the Etymologiaebe associated with Carolingian St. Gallen, but its scriptorium also produced two scholarly redactions of Isidore’s e…[Read more]

]]> 0 8bb8381e3b14f8343f20868f4ad172ce Erin McGuirl started the topic Call for Fellowship Applications from the BSA: Deadline October 1, 2021 in the discussion Textual Scholarship https://hcommons.org/groups/textual-scholarship/forum/topic/call-for-fellowship-applications-from-the-bsa-deadline-october-1-2021/ Thu, 15 Jul 2021 16:59:41 -0400 In keeping with the central value the Society places on bibliography as a critical framework, the BSA funds a number of fellowships to promote inquiry and research in books and other textual artifacts in both traditional and emerging formats.Bibliographical projects may range chronologically from the study of clay tablets and papyrus rolls to…[Read more]

]]> 40c1f947ddd3fbd0fbe613622e08b12b Antonio Rojas Castro deposited Uso de EVT2 para publicar las Soledades de Luis de Góngora in the group Textual Scholarship https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1743227/ Wed, 23 Jun 2021 02:30:38 -0400 Las herramientas de publicación como Edition Visualization Technology (EVT) tienen la ventaja principal de facilitar y agilizar el proceso de publicación web de ediciones codificadas en XML/TEI. El editor puede actuar de manera autónoma y no precisa ser experto en desarrollo web, pues es suficiente descargar la herramienta, cambiar algunos pa…[Read more]

]]> 0 58128ad0d94c385ee8d8000317acac59 Antonio Rojas Castro deposited La colaboración con bibliotecas y archivos desde las Humanidades Digitales. Una mirada a Proyecto Humboldt Digital (ProHD) in the group Textual Scholarship https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1742437/ Sat, 19 Jun 2021 02:33:21 -0400 What are the confluences between library science and digital humanities? How can digital humanists build resources in collaboration with librarians? How culture and politics are shaping the development of digitization practices in Latin America and Europe? This paper aims to answer some of these questions by looking at Proyecto Humboldt Digital…[Read more]

]]> 0 8116002cbc12733197edb33a781bdace Rosanna Cantavella deposited Aproximació als pronoms adverbials i personals febles de l'Espill in the group Textual Scholarship https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1737822/ Tue, 11 May 2021 02:26:34 -0400 An overall view of the use of personal and adverbial pronouns in a 15-c. long text in verse witten in Catalan, "Espill" by Jaume Roig. Personal and adverbial pronouns are studied by themselves as well as in combination.

]]> 0 338adde64249b0a2ff49c0ae95c6d871 Paul A. Broyles deposited Digital Editions and Version Numbering in the group Textual Scholarship https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1733720/ Sat, 03 Apr 2021 02:35:04 -0400 Digital editions are easily modified after they are first published — a state of affairs that poses challenges both for long-term scholarly reference and for various forms of electronic distribution and analysis. This article argues that producers of digital editions should assign meaningful version numbers to their editions and update those v…[Read more]

]]> 0 c697ae13678d1d6f33556287d818c707 Evina Steinova deposited The Oldest Manuscript Tradition of the Etymologiae (eighty years after A. E. Anspach) in the group Textual Scholarship https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1719170/ Tue, 08 Dec 2020 02:24:25 -0500 The Etymologiae of Isidore of Seville was one of the most widely read works of the early Middle Ages, as is evidenced by the number of surviving manuscripts. August Eduard Anspach’s handlist from the 1940s puts their number at almost 1,200, of which approximately 300 were estimated to have been copied before the year 1000. This article, based on a…[Read more]

]]> 0 6717262e4981d6a76a52d670d43bca58 Marco Heiles deposited Entries in Manuscript Karlsruhe, Badische Landesbibliothek, Cod. Donaueschingen A III 19 in the group Textual Scholarship https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1719018/ Sun, 06 Dec 2020 02:23:49 -0500 This graphic provides an overview of the different hand which made entries in the Codex Donaueschingen A III 19 of the Badische Landesbibliothek Karlsruhe.

]]> 0 827d20f1bdf410b12a2f9c8b6ff099dc Wout Dillen deposited DH Benelux Journal 2. Digital Humanities in Society in the group Textual Scholarship https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1707756/ Wed, 09 Sep 2020 02:28:29 -0400 The second volume of the DH Benelux Journal. This volume includes four full-length, peer-reviewed articles that are based on accepted contributions to the 2019 DH Benelux conference in Liège (Belgium) on Digital Humanities in Society. Contents: 1. Editors' Preface (Wout Dillen, Marijn Koolen, Marieke van Erp); 2. Introduction: Digital Humanities…[Read more]

]]> 0 0fda6ce39c637d97b24230f8d6595979 Wout Dillen deposited DH Benelux Journal 1. Integrating Digital Humanities. in the group Textual Scholarship https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1706387/ Wed, 26 Aug 2020 02:24:06 -0400 The first volume of the DH Benelux Journal. This volume includes four full-length, peer-reviewed articles that are based on accepted contributions to the 2018 DH Benelux conference in Amsterdam (The Netherlands) on Integrating Digital Humanities.

Contents:
1. Editors' Preface (Wout Dillen, Marijn Koolen, Marieke van Erp)
2. Introduction:…[Read more]

]]> 0 b7e1315d11f7c8191c3f2036a08faa22 Jonathan Groß deposited On the Transmission of Paeanius in the group Textual Scholarship https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1706190/ Tue, 25 Aug 2020 02:23:44 -0400 For Paeanius’ Greek translation of Eutropius’ Breviarium, a single manuscript, Iviron 812 (12th cent.), is found to be the only independent witness for establishing the text.

]]> 0 640450848a5423403d95a564c474074b Wout Dillen deposited Teaching DH on Raspberry Pis. A Minimal Computing Approach to Digital Pedagogy in the group Textual Scholarship https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1702122/ Thu, 23 Jul 2020 02:38:56 -0400 In this paper, we propose a 'minimal digital pedagogy' that applyies the principles of Minimal Computing in the classroom. As a working group of ADHO's GO:DH Special Interest Group, Minimal Computing sets out to rethink DH work for areas in the world where factors such as high-end hardware, software, network capacity, power, etc. are not a given,…[Read more]

]]> 0 a3abf8b029e46167f9157017a276d8c6 Augustine Farinola deposited Digital Humanities Scholarship in Africa: Prospects and Challenges in the group Textual Scholarship https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1702081/ Thu, 23 Jul 2020 02:24:10 -0400 This research addresses the issues surrounding the low level of Digital Humanities (DH) technological consciousness among students and academics in the humanities discipline in Africa (Nigeria). The study, using online questionnaires, shows that despite the wide acceptance of DH Technological tools among some African scholars in the humanities,…[Read more]

]]> 0 4dc91649439b559a1ca86ae33571ecbf Amit Gvaryahu deposited A “New” Fragment of Sifre Numbers, Wrocław I-F-205 in the group Textual Scholarship https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1693312/ Wed, 24 Jun 2020 16:25:54 -0400 A description and edition of a fragment of the early rabbinic work Sifre Numbers, miscatalogued as a different work, found in the university library, Wrocław.

]]> 0 15d7ee536de68d4012bbf6ee18ab80eb Anthony Cerulli deposited Archival Aesthetics: Framing and Exhibiting Indian Manuscripts and Manuscript Libraries in the group Textual Scholarship https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1692949/ Tue, 23 Jun 2020 16:27:15 -0400 Can the Indian manuscript and manuscript library be art? In what follows, I reflect on this question by examining a set of photographs I created for an art project called Manuscriptistan. I explain what it has meant for me to aestheticise Indian manuscript libraries and manuscripts, and I offer some insights about why it is important for scholars…[Read more]

]]> 0 32361e7b00286c1f3254b5e665a7b13c Amit Gvaryahu deposited TMR 20.04.20 Marcus, Sefer Hasidim and the Ashkenazic Book in Medieval Europe in the group Textual Scholarship https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1684948/ Wed, 22 Apr 2020 16:25:42 -0400 Review of Ivan Marcus, Sefer Hasidim and the Ashkenazic Book in Medieval Europe

]]> 0 34c9ece155ea8520d6f56076270abbc4 Jeremiah Coogan deposited Transmission and Transformation of the Eusebian Gospel Apparatus in Medieval Greek Manuscripts in the group Textual Scholarship https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1681587/ Sat, 21 Mar 2020 16:25:39 -0400 Scholars have often assumed that the Eusebian apparatus was defunct and ignored in the Middle Ages. I argue, however, that Greek manuscripts offer evidence for readers’ ongoing use of the Eusebian apparatus. While the transmission of the Eusebian apparatus was subject to error, users maintained the functionality of the Eusebian system. Readers a…[Read more]

]]> 0 20f7714c7d1b17e4deb0573156d9b40f Evina Steinova deposited Call for Papers | Networks of Manuscripts, Networks of Texts (Oct 22-23 2020, Amsterdam) in the group Textual Scholarship https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1678169/ Tue, 11 Feb 2020 16:26:11 -0500 This conference aims to bring together researchers applying network analysis to pre-modern manuscripts and manuscript texts. Key topics include:

• Theoretical reflections on the challenges and advantages of applying network analysis, including social network analysis, to pre-modern written cultures;
• Application of network analysis to cor…[Read more]

]]> 0 80fc84972857aa604806ce4f5c220e3a Amit Gvaryahu deposited דיני החבלות בתורת התנאים in the group Textual Scholarship https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1677981/ Sun, 09 Feb 2020 16:25:23 -0500 The Tannaitic Laws of Battery: Scripture and Halakhah
Amit Gvaryahu
Four laws in the Pentateuch discuss fights between people. The arrangement of these laws and their relationship to one another were debated in the Tannaitic academies. The school of Rabbi Ishmael read these laws as a single entity, each law “coming to teach things omitted” in…[Read more]

]]> 0 4b7f06100bf72928da8facb4be20ad1d Amit Gvaryahu deposited Twisting words: does Halakhah really circumvent scripture? in the group Textual Scholarship https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1677572/ Wed, 05 Feb 2020 16:26:30 -0500 abstract A foundational text in the study of Tannaitic Midrash and Halakhah, Sifre Deuteronomy 122 is a list of places where Halakhah ʿ qpt scripture. This word, ʿ qpt, has long been understood to mean ‘circumvent’, ‘bypass’ or ‘belie’, and the pericope has been read as a list of places where ‘Halakhah circumvents scripture’, and thus a testament…[Read more]

]]> 0 f46c90481a8b216d6cbf598bf915ad9a Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited Las "Coplas a un impotente" atribuidas a don Juan Manuel y su posible contexto histórico y político (1506) in the group Textual Scholarship https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1671444/ Thu, 05 Dec 2019 16:26:24 -0500 En la más reciente edición y estudio de la Carajicomedia, su editor llama la atención sobre un aspecto determinado de esta obra, y por extensión, a todas las sátiras a mitad de camino entre lo burlesco y lo erótico: se establece la necesidad de explorar «more fully the political complexity of the period; the reasons that its authors may have h…[Read more]

]]> 0 b75f51fc6589e027c46182f3465c477a Amit Gvaryahu deposited הלוואה בריבית בספרות חז״ל: הלכה, אגדה והקשרים תרבותיים in the group Textual Scholarship https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1657009/ Mon, 08 Jul 2019 16:25:24 -0400 This dissertation is a study of the usury prohibition in rabbinic literature. It focuses on the usury laws in Tannaitic literature, the first formulation of the usury prohibition as a complex and multifaceted judicial norm. I place the Tannaitic usury laws against the backdrop of the economic and cultural norms of the wider world which the Tannaim…[Read more]

]]> 0 f72839e8cde1255aa88ea0fd7fbfdb4e Wout Dillen deposited Inclusive Design and Dissemination in Digital Scholarly Editing: CSV Dataset in the group Textual Scholarship https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1643426/ Sat, 29 Jun 2019 16:25:43 -0400 In 2017, the authors designed a survey titled Inclusive Design and Dissemination in Digital Scholarly Editions. The survey was designed and hosted using SurveyMonkey (https://www.surveymonkey.com) and was open from 1 July to 31 November 2017. The survey received 219 responses, 109 of which completed every required question in the survey – r…[Read more]

]]> 0 6360f88e3588af688a35bc7e8943e6fc Wout Dillen deposited Inclusive Design and Dissemination In Digital Scholarly Editing: Survey Questions in the group Textual Scholarship https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1643424/ Sat, 29 Jun 2019 16:25:33 -0400 In 2017, the authors designed a survey titled Inclusive Design and Dissemination in Digital Scholarly Editions. The survey was designed and hosted using SurveyMonkey (https://www.surveymonkey.com) and was open from 1 July to 31 November 2017. The survey received 219 responses, 109 of which completed every required question in the survey – r…[Read more]

]]> 0 e05254a176ba8b95e12df286a3fbb18b Grégoire Espesset deposited Editing and Translating the Taiping Jing and the Great Peace Textual Corpus [Review article] in the group Textual Scholarship https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1643165/ Mon, 24 Jun 2019 16:25:37 -0400 A literary and historical introduction to the printed and manuscript materials composing the Great Peace (Taiping 太平) textual corpus, with a critical assessment of several modern Chinese editions thereof, followed by a revised review of THE SCRIPTURE ON GREAT PEACE: THE TAIPING JING AND THE BEGINNINGS OF DAOISM, translated by Barbara Hen…[Read more]

]]> 0 5cf75c5925324140fc7c1fa39bdbb8f0 Grégoire Espesset deposited Le manuscrit Stein 4226 Taiping bu juan di er 太平部卷第二 dans l’histoire du taoïsme médiéval in the group Textual Scholarship https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1643110/ Sun, 23 Jun 2019 16:41:54 -0400 Historiography, morphological analysis, textual study and full translation into French of Chinese manuscript Stein no. 4226 from Dunhuang in the British Library (Or.8210/S.4226/R.1).

]]> 0 a2a98f33a5eeef3f8e9c72d71f6989e9 Grégoire Espesset deposited Epiphanies of Sovereignty and the Rite of Jade Disc Immersion in Weft Narratives in the group Textual Scholarship https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1642292/ Tue, 11 Jun 2019 16:26:23 -0400 This paper deals with the political ideology of late pre-imperial and early imperial China as documented by remnants of an under-explored genre known in English as weft (wei 緯) writings or “Confucian Apocrypha”. It focuses on the transcendence of hierarchy and sovereignty, the transfer of dynastic legitimacy, and the pragmatic vehicle of “tang…[Read more]

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