Preliminary Material / August Den Hollander , Ulrich Schmid and Willem Smelik -- Jeremiah 23: 1-8: Shepherds in Diachronic Perspective / Rosalie Kuyvenhoven -- Matthew 5: 1 7-18 in the Light of Qumran Scribal Practice / Siam Bhayro -- Orality, Manuscript Reproduction, and the Targums / Willem Smelik -- The Task of the Talmud: On Talmud as Translation / Aryeh Cohen -- “Oh my dove, let me see your face!” Targum, Piyyut, and the Literary Life of the Ancient Synagogue / Laura Lieber -- “ ... so that those who read the (Biblical) text and the commentary do not correct one after the other” (Zachary of Besarn;on). / Ulrich Schmid -- Forbidden Bibles. Paratext and the Index Librorum Prohibitorum. / August den Hollander -- Paratext and Skopos of Bible translations / Lourens de Vries -- SBL/EABS 2001 / August Den Hollander , Ulrich Schmid and Willem Smelik -- Index / August Den Hollander , Ulrich Schmid and Willem Smelik -- Jewish and Christian Perspective Series / August Den Hollander , Ulrich Schmid and Willem Smelik.

Religious traditions are channeled to new audiences by textual markers, which inform their understanding and influence. Such markers are signs of contextualisation which belong to the paratext of a tradition: textual elements that do not belong to the core text itself but belong to their embedding and as such affect their reception. Alternatively, some texts function purposely in tandem with another text, and cannot be understood without that text. While the second text informs the way the first one is being understood, it can hardly function independently. The discussions include the arrangement of textual blocks in the Hebrew Bible; how the oral transmission of Jewish Aramaic Bible translations had to be recited as a counterpoint to the Hebrew chant; how synagogue poetry presupposes the channels of liturgical instruction; how the Talmud can be perceived as a translation of Mishnah; how the presence of paratextual elements such as annotations and prefaces influenced the Index Librorum Prohibitorum concerning 16th century Bibles; the function of paratext and scope for modern Bible translations. This volume will tentatively explore the wide range of paratext and megatext as devices of channeling religious traditions.

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