The Masora Text of the Hebrew Bible in its Various Material Forms in Western Europe (B04)

• Subject Area: Religious Studies and Jewish Studies
• Term: from 2011 to 2023
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 178035969

This subproject pursues a praxeological approach to the Masoretic Bible and deals with its reception, its production, and its respective social domains (synagogue; ‘Lehrhaus’/bet midrash; university). In the third funding period, the project dedicates itself to the question of the shift from handwritten manuscripts to early printings; it conducts studies on the parallel existence of both printed and handwritten artefacts with Masoretic notation since initial investigations have already brought the result that the Ashkenasic Masoretic tradition was replaced step by step by the (Oriental-)Sefardic Masora-Tradition. In this, the project traces back the reason why Jewish and Christian reception of and research on the Bible and its Masoretic tradition from the 15th century onwards went completely separate ways.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 933: Material Text Cultures. Materiality and Presence of Writing in Non-Typographic Societies
• Applicant Institution: Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
• Project Head: Professorin Dr. Hanna Liss