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Theoretical Approaches to the Transmission and Edition of Oriental Manuscripts.

This volume comprises the papers presented during the international symposium on "Theoretical Approaches to the Transmission and Edition of Oriental Manuscripts" that was organized in March 2001 in Istanbul, bringing together specialists in the editing theories and techniques from the textual and editorial traditions of Classical Antiquity and Oriental Studies.

The contributions address the 'traveling' of texts through time and space, taking into account the differences between oral and written traditions; a comparative analysis of intertextuality in different textual traditions in particular those of classical antiquity and the Near East; the material conditions of and intellectual incentives for the transmission, reproduction, and, indeed, edition, of texts; the interrelation between text genre and object genre; editorial choices, and how they take into account the manner in which a given text was historically reproduced; philological methods that have been developed in order to deal with these issues; and the question of how and to which extent we can apply established editing methods developed by the European medievalists to Near Eastern textual traditions, and which alternatives exist.

Language: English
ISBN: 9783899135329
2007, Paperback, 335 pages, 24.0 x 17.0 cm