The Old Nubian Texts from AttiriVincent W. J. van Gerven Oei, Vincent Pierre Laisney, Giovanni Ruffini, Alexandros Tsakos, Kerstin Weber-Thum, Petra Weschenfelder The Old Nubian Texts from Attiri is the first publication in the Dotawo: Monographs series. It presents heretofore unpublished material, an edition of a series of manuscripts discovered in the frame of the Aswan High Dam campaign at the site of Attiri, a rocky island in the Batn el-Hajjar region in the Sudan, and does so in an innovative way, through an intense collaboration of the editors under the name of the Attiri Collaborative. By bringing together their diverse backgrounds in linguistics, archeology, Bible studies, history, anthropology, and philology, the editors hope to have provided an example of a new model of collective manuscript editing and the results such collaboration can attain.The collection consists of 15 manuscript fragments that were all written in Old Nubian. Among these manuscripts special mention should be made of two parchment leaves from a codex dedicated to works on the Archangel Michael, a lectionary containing fragments from the Gospel of Matthew and the Second Letter to the Corinthians, as well as a rare letter written on a leather sheet.TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface - ixList of Tables - xiList of Figures - xGeneral Introduction - 13P. Attiri 1-2: The Attiri Book of Michael - 31P. Attiri 3-4: Lectionary - 59P. Attiri 5: Unidentified fragment - 75P. Attiri 6: Fragment - 79P. Attiri 7: Fragments - 81P. Attiri 6: The Head - 83P. Attiri 6: Sale - 85P. Attiri 6: Unidentified document - 89P. Attiri 6: Letter - 93Bibliography - 97 |
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accusative Alexandros Tsakos Ammonian Section Archangel Michael attested Attiri 2.ii Attiri Book Book of Michael BROWNE codex Copt Coptic dative depth determiner Devil document Dotawo Epistle of James flesh side focus marker followed fragment genitive Gerven Oei Greek loanword hair side Khalil Khartoum leather Lectionary Liber Institutionis Michaelis literary main verb majuscules manuscript Medieval Nubia morpheme Nobiin noun Nubian languages object Old Nubian Texts ordo maior parchment participial form Paul Pauline Epistle perhaps a form Photo by Alexandros Photo by Vincent pluractional plural roy Possible matching readings possibly related predicative present tense preterite 1 ap Qasr Ibrim reconstructed Reinisch relative clause scribe second person plural seems sentence Sudan suffix suggests syllable Texts from Qasr third person singular tion translation typika typikon verbal form verbal root Vincent W.J. vowel W.J. van Gerven WESCHENFELDER word ει λω ορπογ ταλ λο єкка падача