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Marcus Jastrow as a Talmud Scholar

Marcus Jastrow is well-known for his monumental Aramaic dictionary. Also see this web site from Penn and this article by Menachem Butler. While searching through the Internet Archive, I came across an interesting monograph by Jastrow, “The History and the Future of the Talmudic Text”, a lecture delivered at Gratz College in 1895. [...]

Introducing Glossator

A new online journal which may be of interest:

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Glossator: Practice and Theory of the Commentary
Glossator publishes original commentaries, editions and translations of commentaries, and essays and articles relating to the theory and history of commentary, glossing, and marginalia. The journal aims to encourage the practice of commentary as a creative form of intellectual work [...]

E-mail group on manuscript studies

Via Thoughts on Antiquity, info about a new e-mail list “which focuses on the study of manuscripts and textual criticism.” The group is Apparatus Criticus. It is a serious academic list. See more here.