The Old Nubian Texts from Attiri
- Edited by Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei, Vincent Pierre-Michel Laisney, Giovanni Ruffini, Alexandros Tsakos, Kerstin Weber-Thum, Petra Weschenfelder
Published on November 22, 2016 by punctum books
- Pages
- 104 pages
- Languages
- English
- Dimensions
- 6.14⤫9.21 in.
- ISBN (Paperback)
- ISBN: 978-0-9982375-7-2 (Paperback)
- BISAC subject codes
- BISAC: LCO017000
- Thema subject codes
- THEMA: 1QBHN, 3KL, CFL, NKD
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 It presents heretofore unpublished material: an edition of a series of manuscripts discovered during the Aswan High Dam campaign(opens in new tab) at the site of Attiri, a rocky island in the Batn el-Hajjar region in Sudan, and does so in an innovative way, through an intensive 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.
Biographies
Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei(opens in new tab) received a PhD in Media & Communications from the European Graduate School and another PhD in Modern Thought from the University of Aberdeen. He is a philologist and the co-director of punctum books(opens in new tab). He is also a specialist in Old Nubian and co-editor-in-chief of Dotawo(opens in new tab). Monographs include A Reference Grammar of Old Nubian(opens in new tab) (Peeters, 2021) and Cross-Examinations(opens in new tab) (MER. Paper Kunsthalle, 2015). His three-volume work Lapidari(opens in new tab) (punctum, 2015)** provides the first complete overview of socialist monumentality in Albania. As a translator, Van Gerven Oei works mostly with anonymous Makuritan Nubian scribes and contemporary authors such as Jean Daive, Hervé Guibert, Werner Hamacher, Dick Raaijmakers, Avital Ronell, and Nachoem M. Wijnberg. His scholarly work has appeared in Afterall, Glossa, The Journal of Juristic Papyrology, postmedieval, and Theory & Event, among other venues.
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Genres
- Languages+Translations
- Premodern
Keywords
- archaeology
- Attiri
- epigraphy
- Nubian Studies
- Sudan