Solomon A. Birnbaum: a Lifetime of Achievement: A Collection of His Papers (Palaographie)

Preliminary Note......Page 8
Solomon Birnbaum’s Life and Work......Page 10
Scholarly Articles by Solomon Birnbaum......Page 28
A. The Palaeo-Hebrew Script......Page 30
28. Table of Semitic Alphabets. 10th – 5th Centuries B.C.E.......Page 32
29. On the Possibility of Dating Hebrew Inscriptions......Page 36
30. The Dates of the Gezer Tablet and of the Samaria Ostraca......Page 42
31. The Palaeo-Hebrew Ostraca Sherds and a Fragment of a Stele, all from Samaria......Page 46
32. The Lachish Ostraca......Page 82
33. The Leviticus Fragments from the Cave......Page 108
B. The Hebrew Script......Page 118
34. The Development of the Hebrew Scripts......Page 120
35. Methodology in Hebrew Palaeography......Page 166
36. Notes on the Internal and Archaeological Evidence Concerning the Cave Scrolls......Page 176
37. The Dates of the Cave Scrolls......Page 182
38. How Old Are the Cave Manuscripts? – A Palaeographical Discussion......Page 186
39. The Qumran Scrolls and Palaeography......Page 208
40. The Date of the Isaiah Scroll......Page 220
41. The Date of the Habakkuk Cave Scroll......Page 226
42. The Date of the Covenant Scroll......Page 236
43. The Age of the Cave Scrolls: Two Letters to the London Times......Page 246
44. The Date of the Hymns Scroll......Page 248
45. The Date of the Incomplete Isaiah Scroll from Qumraˆn......Page 260
46. Bar Kosba (Kokhba) and Akiba......Page 270
47. Akiba and Bar Kosba (Kokhba)......Page 282
48. The Beth Mashku Document......Page 286
49. A Fragment in an Unknown Script......Page 302
50. An Unknown Aramaic Cursive......Page 306
51. The Negeb Script......Page 328
52. The Kephar Bebhayu Conveyance......Page 362
53. The Kephar Bebhayu Marriage Deed......Page 392
54. A Sheet of an Eighth Century Synagogue Scroll......Page 406
55. Die Vielfalt der hebräischen Schrift im Mittelalter......Page 414
56. Die Schrift des Dukus Horant......Page 416
57. Manuscripts in Old Yiddish......Page 424
58. Design for an Ornamental Ashkenazic Printing Type......Page 430
59. Das Datum des Codex Zimt Sand (Maase Bukh)......Page 432
60. Palaeographical Examination of the ‘Klein Manuscript’......Page 438
61. A Scrap from a Hebrew Manuscript of a Kitāb al-Malāḥ im / {Kitāb fī ilm al-jafr}......Page 446
62. The Etymology of the Term Mashait......Page 454
Index of Persons (in Chapters 28–62)......Page 484