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Donald J. MuskM to Science NewsEnglish · 2 months ago

What Syriac scribes chose to keep: A digital dive into 1,000 manuscripts

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What Syriac scribes chose to keep: A digital dive into 1,000 manuscripts

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Donald J. MuskM to Science NewsEnglish · 2 months ago
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A new study uses digital tools to analyze nearly 1,000 Syriac manuscripts from the British Library, focusing on how scribes and editors selected and rearranged parts of texts—a practice known as excerpting. Researcher Noam Maeir introduces a new measurement called Excerpts Per Manuscript (EPM) to track how often this happened. This approach reveals that the people who copied and compiled these manuscripts were not just preserving texts—they were actively shaping what future generations would read and remember.
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