On some pseudo-corrections in early mandaic epigraphic texts

• Autores: Ohad Abudraham
• Localización: Aula Orientalis: Revista de estudios del Próximo Oriente Antiguo, ISSN 0212-5730, Vol. 35, Nº. 2, 2017, págs. 199-211
• Idioma: inglés
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  • In this article, I present new examples of pseudo-corrections from a specific genre of epigraphic material (amulets and magic bowls) written in Mandaic. The scribes' pseudo-corrections fall into two categories: the impact of common historical spellings upon parallel forms (such as "bay tree" under the influence of "earth" and "abanda (a personal name)" under the influence of "knowledge") and the addition of apparently superfluous graphemes (such as the letter "He" in "your faces",, "I beswear you", etc; and the letter "Nun" in "great", etc). The new examples reveal that already at the earliest stage of Mandaic the language of the scribes differs from the literary idiom.