TY - JOUR
AU - Smithuis, Renate
AB - SHORT NOTICES thought who have mastered the language have generally had to remain content with photostats of this standard edition, which even on its first and only previous print- run was reproduced on the basis of hand-written lithographic plates in a mere hundred copies, of which only seventy-five were made available for sale. In spite of its rarity, Petermann’s edition has long provided the basis of all scholarly work on this text, and provides the standard pagination by which the Ginza is cited. We thus owe a great debt to the Gorgias Mandean Studies series, and to its general editors, Dr Jorunn Buckley and Dr Charles Häberl, for making this seminal work readily available to the scholarly world for perhaps the first time ever. In three handsome volumes, the publishers have reproduced the three parts of Petermann’s work: the two ‘sides’ of the Ginza and the critical apparatus that accompany them. The reprint is accompanied by a brief introduction by Häberl, wherein he outlines the history of scholarship on the text and provides a short description of the con- tents of its various chapters. In addition, Häberl has translated Petermann’s Latin introduction into English. The reproduction of the edition 
TI - Benjamin Richler, Hebrew Manuscripts in the Vatican Library Catalogue (Studi E Testi 438).
JF - Journal of Semitic Studies
DO - 10.1093/jss/fgp076
DA - 2010-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/benjamin-richler-hebrew-manuscripts-in-the-vatican-library-catalogue-In7xIsi3Ex
SP - 322
EP - 323
VL - 55
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -