Bridges of Knowledge

Jean Baumgarten is Directeur de recherche emeritus at the Centre National de la recherche scientifique (CNRS, Paris). He has published articles and books on the Yiddish language and literature (16th-18th century), cultural studies of the Ashkenazi culture, Jewish mysticism and Hasidism.Ruth von Bernuth is Professor at the North Carolina University. She published books and articles on German and Yiddish literature and culture (15th-18th centuries). Her most recent research focus is the Bible and Biblical literature in Yiddish.Moshe Lavee is a lecturer in Talmud and Midrash (department of Jewish History,) chair of eLijah-Lab for Digital Humanities (University of Haifa). He published articles and books on Aggadic Midrash from the Genizah, the construction of identity in rabbinic Literature, and DH applications for Jewish Studies.

• AcknowledgmentList of Figures1 Introduction1 Anatomy of the Problem2 This BookPart 1 Manuscript Context2 Gospel Argumenta1 The Short ‘Eusebian’ Argumentum [Paratext 1.1]2 The Long ‘Eusebian’ Argumentum3 The Argumentum of Cosmas Indicopleustes [Paratext 1.2]3 Marginalia in Greek1 The Eusebian Apparatus2 The 8-Section Tradition3 Family 14 Scholia on Jesus’ Ascension in GA 72 [Paratext 3.1]4 Marginalia in Latin and Oriental Version1 Latin2 Syriac3 Coptic4 Ethiopic5 Gospel EpiloguePart 2 Commentary Manuscripts6 The Catena in Marcum1 The Common Edition2 The Egyptian Edition3 A Scholion from Dionysius of Alexandria7 Theophylact Catena1 The Common Edition2 Maintaining the Truth Unharmed: The Longer Edition3 As Travellers Rejoice: GA 3048 Conclusion1 Summary2 Concluding RemarksPart 3 Paratexts and TranslationsParatext 1.1: The ‘Eusebian’ Argumentum to MarkTextTranslationParatext 1.2: The Argumentum of Cosmas IndicopleustesTextTranslationParatexts 2: Canon TablesParatext 3.1: Scholia on Jesus’ AscensionTextTranslationParatext 3.2: Scholion from ReuchlinTextTranslationParatext 4: De Harmoniae EvangelistarumTextTranslationParatext 5.1: The Egyptian RecensionTextTranslationParatext 5.2: A Scholion from the Letter of Dionysius of Alexandria to BasilidesTextTranslationParatext 5.3: Theophylact’s Catena: The Long RecensionTextTranslationParatext 5.4: Zigabenus’ CatenaTextTranslationBibliographyIndex