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The Old Nubian Texts from Attiri is the first publication in theDotawo: Monographs series. It presents heretofore unpublished material: an edition of a series of manuscripts discovered during theAswan High Dam campaign at the site of Attiri, a rocky island in the Batn el-Hajjar region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.

Contents

Preface | ix

List of Tables | xi

List of Figures | x

General Introduction | 13

P. Attiri 1–2: The Attiri Book of Michael | 31

P. Attiri 3–4: Lectionary | 59

P. Attiri 5: Unidentified fragment | 75

P. Attiri 6: Fragment | 79

P. Attiri 7: Fragments | 81

P. Attiri 6: The Head | 83

P. Attiri 6: Sale | 85

P. Attiri 6: Unidentified document | 89

P. Attiri 6: Letter | 93

Bibliography | 97

About the Editors

Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei 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 ofpunctum books. He is a specialist in Old Nubian and co-editor-in-chief of Dotawo. Monographs includeA Reference Grammar of Old Nubian (Peeters, 2021) andCross-Examinations (MER. Paper Kunsthalle, 2015). His three-volume workLapidari (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 inAfterall,Glossa,The Journal of Juristic Papyrology,postmedieval, andTheory & Event, among other venues.

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