Papers by Joseph Habib
Jewish Quarterly Review, 2023
Studies in the Masoretic Tradition of the Hebrew Bible, 2022
Journal of Jewish Studies, 2022
The Masoretic text of Leviticus 5:18b appears to contain two different traditions of reading. One... more The Masoretic text of Leviticus 5:18b appears to contain two different traditions of reading. One is reflected by a syntactic break via the pausal form שָׁגָ֛ג [šāgāg] ‘he sinned unintentially’. The other is reflected by a break after לֹֽא־יָדַ֖ע ‘he did not know’ via the Tiberian Masoretic accents. The interpretation of the reading reflected by the pausal form is well accounted for within traditional rabbinic literature. According to it, this verse requires an offering called the ʾāšām tālûy (אָשָׁם תָּלוּי) ‘Suspended Guilt Offering’. The interpretation of the reading reflected by the accents, however, has not yet been clarified or identified with any particular tradition. The commentaries of the early-medieval Karaites reflect an interpretation based on a division similar to that of the accents and therefore offer one possible way to understand that division.
Book Reviews by Joseph Habib
An Anonymous Karaite Commentary on Hosea from the Cairo Genizah ● By Friedrich Niessen ● Cambridge Genizah Studies Series, Volume 13 ● Brill 2021, 2021
A short review written for Genizah Fragments: Blog of the Genizah Research Unit.
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Papers by Joseph Habib
Book Reviews by Joseph Habib