The Biblical Masorah and the Temple Scroll: An Orthographical Inquiry - Hardcover

by Steven Leonard Jacobs (Author)

The Temple Scroll, the last of the Dead Sea Scrolls found in 1967, contains two phenomena that are at variance with the Jewish tradition. Professor Jacobs presents a thorough study of ligature writing or "joined letters" and the insertion of both words and phrases between the lines of the text in The Biblical Masorah and the Temple Scroll.

Author Biography

Steven Leonard Jacobs, Aaron Aronov Chair of Judaic Studies at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, has taught Jewish, Holocaust [Shoah], and Biblical Studies at Calhoun Community College, Oakwood College, University of Alabama, Huntsville, Alabama; Mississippi State University, Starkville, Mississippi; and Martin Methodist College, Tennessee.