Table of Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Open-Access-Transformation in den Jüdischen Studien VI
3. Table of Contents VII
4. Abbreviations IX
5. Preface XI
6. Figures XIII
7. Tables XVII
8. Introduction: Materiality, Liminality, and the Digital Turn: The Sacred Texts of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam in Material Perspective 1
9. I. Sacred Texts and Material Contexts
10. Stichographic Layout in the Dead Sea Psalms Scrolls: Observations on its Development and its Potential 13
11. Reading Aids in Early Christian Papyri 35
12. Writing the Qur’ān Between the Lines: Marginal and Interlinear Notes in Selected Qur’ān Fragments from the Museum of Islamic Art, Qatar 51
13. The Sefer Torah and Jewish Orthodoxy in the Islamic Middle Ages 63
14. From Scroll to Codex: Dynamics of Text Layout Transformation in the Hebrew Bible 91
15. Memory, Performance, and Change: The Psalms’ Layout in Late Medieval and Early Modern Bibles 119
16. Be Your Own Scribe: Bible Journalling and the New Illuminators of the Densely-Printed Page 153
17. II. Sacred Texts and the Digital Turn
18. Monks, Manuscripts, Muhammad, and Digital Editions of the New Testament 181
19. The Qur’ānic Text from Manuscript to Digital Form: Metalinguistic Markup of Scribes and Editors 213
20. Paratexts and the Hermeneutics of Digital Bibles 247
21. Virtual Qur’ān: Authenticity, Authority, and Ayat in Bytes 263
22. Sacred Texts in a Digital Age: Materiality, Digital Culture, and the Functional Dimensions of Scriptures in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam 281
23. Scriptural Index 303
24. Subject Index 305