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Edna Engel

Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

 

Recapiti:

The Hebrew Palaeography Project,

The National and University Library,

P.O.B 34165

Jerusalem 91341

Tel. +972-2-6584125

Fax. +97-2-6481834

e-mail: ednae@savion.huji.ac.il

 

TEMI DI RICERCA

Paleografia ebraica.

 

PUBBLICAZIONI

Articles

- "A Palaeographical Study of Oxford MS Heb. D.69", lěšonénu  53 (1989), pp. 265-285 (Hebrew). "The Dating of the Early Genizah Fragments", Proceedings of the Tenth World Congress of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem: World Union of Jewish Studies, Division D Vol. 1 (1990), pp. 181-188 (in Hebrew).

- "Abraham Ben Mordecai Farissol: Sephardi Tradition of Book Making in Northern Italy of The Renaissance Period", Jewish Art 18 (1992)’ pp. 149-167.

- "A Palaeographical Description of British Library MS Heb. 5794", ALEI Sefer, 17 (1993) pp. 19-22 (in Hebrew).

- "MS Berlin 160: Its Date and Origin", Italia Vol. XI (1994), pp. 53-55 (in Hebrew).

- "Writing Materials and the Development of Hebrew Script from the 2nd to the 9th centuries" Proceedings of the Eleventh World Congress of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem: World Union of Jewish Studies, Division D Vol. I (1994), pp. 53-60 (in Hebrew).

- "Progress in Classifying Dated Documents", in: Genizah fragments, n. 28 (1994), p. 3.

- "Styles of Hebrew Script in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries in the Light of Dated and Datable Geniza Documents", Te'uda XV (1999), pp. 365-412 (in Hebrew).

- "The Wandering of a Provencal Proselyte: A Puzzle of Three Genizah Fragments", Sefunot  ns Vol. 7 (22)  (1999), pp. 13-30 (in Hebrew).

- "Hebrew Letters of Old Castile in the Cairo Genizah", in: J. Targarona Borrás and A. Sáenz-Badillos (eds.), Jewish Studies at the Turn of the Twentieth Century, Proceedings of the 6th EAJS Congress Toledo (1999), pp. 398-406.

- "Hebrew Scripts in Medieval Catalonia", Actes del I Congrés per A 8. L'estudi dels jueus en territory de llengua catalana, Barcelona-Girona del 15 al 17 d'octubre de 2001, pp. 121-13.

- "The Analysis of Letter – a New Palaeographical Method", Methoden der Schriftbeschreibung, Herausgegeben the von Peter Ruck, Bd. 4 Stuttgart 1999, pp. 43-50.

- "Few Palaeographical notes on the Hebrew fragments found in Modena.and Correggio", M. Perani and S. Campanini (eds.), Inventari dei manoscritti delle biblioteche d’italia, Vol.. Cxi, Firenze 1999, pp. 15-17.

- "I cataloghi dei frammenti ebraici di Bologna e di Modena", in: in: M. Perani (ed.) La “Genizah italiana”, Bologna 1999, pp. 271-285.

- "Alcune note sulla paleografia della “Genizah italiana”’, M. Perani (ed.) La “Genizah italiana”, Bologna 1999, pp. 252-259.

- "Evolutionary Stages of Medieval Hebrew Scripts as Reflected in the   European Genizah",M. Perani and C. Ruini (eds.), Fragmenta ne perant, Proceeding of the international conference ‘Recupero e studio dei frammenti di manoscritti medievali e rinascimentali riutiliaazti in legature’ Ravenna 2000. Ravenna (2002), pp. 89-119.

- “The Sephardic scripts of the 13th-14th centuries in view of the Gerona fragments”, Materia Giudaica 6,2 (2001), pp. 145-160.

- “I frammenti di Bazzano alla luce della codicologia e paleografia ebraiche”, Materia Giudaica 6,2 (2001), pp. 205-219.

- "A Palaeographical Analysis of Mithridates' Hebrew Autographs", M. Perani and L. Pepi (eds.) Guglielmo Raimondo Moncada alias Flavio Mitridate (Un ebreo converse siciliano), Proceeding of the international conference in Caltabellota (2008), pp. 201-223.

 

In Collaboration

- With C. Sirat, "Description and Comparison of Scripts: A Question of Methodology", Proceedings of the Eight World Congress of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem: World Union of Jewish Studies,Division D (1982), pp. 77-81 (in Hebrew).

- C. Sirat, M. Beit-Arie and M. Glatzer (eds.), Manuscrits medievaux en caracteres hebraiques portant des indications de date jusqu'ŕ 1540, Paris Jerusalem 1986.

- ‘Palaeographic Study’, Mahzor Eretz Israel, A Geniza Codex, with an Annotated Introduction by J. Yahalom , Jerusalem 1987 (in Hebrew).

- M. Beit-Arié (ed.), Specimens of Mediaeval Hebrew Scripts, v I: Oriental and Yemenite Scripts, Jerusalem 1987 (in Hebrew).

- M. Beit-Arie, C. Sirat and M. Glatzer (eds.), Codices hebraicis litteris scrpti fuerint exhibentes, Tomb I jusqu’a 1020, Paris, Jerusalem 1997.

- M. Beit Arié and  E. Engel (ed.),  Specimens of Mediaeval Hebrew Scripts, v II: Sefardic Script, Jerusalem 2002.

 

Forthcoming

- E. Engel and M. Beit-Arié (eds.), Specimens of Mediaeval Hebrew Scripts, Vol. III, Ashkenazic Script, The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Jerusalem.

- "Between France and Germany: Gothic Characteristics in Ashkenazic Script" Festschrift offered for Prof. C. Sirat, the Cambridge University press.

- "Calamus versus Chisel: On the History of the Ashkenazic Script", European Genizah Text and Studies, a sub-series in the series studies in European Judaism on the "European Genizah".

- "Palaeographic analysis of the Würzburg inscriptions" K. Müller, S. Schwarzfuchs and R. Reiner (eds), Würzburg Tombstones,  Text and Introductions.

 

Review

- J. Casanovas Miro, Las inscripciones funerarias hebraicas medievales de Espana, Turnhout, Brepols, 2004 in: Bulletin Codicologique 2006, 1 pp. 69-70.

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