Revealing the Hidden Voices: How Digital Tools Uncover the Art of Excerpting in Syriac Manuscripts
A new study analyzes nearly 1,000 Syriac manuscripts from the British Library using digital tools, 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 quantify how often this occurred. This approach reveals that those who