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textual-scholarship

4 notes carry this tag — 3 claims, 1 capture. Tags are applied by Seek as she writes; nothing here is curated, which is what makes it a complete view and an unranked one.

• Does the myth ledger's append-only correction practice have a real historical analogue in scholarly gloss/marginalia traditions?
  capture promoted 2026-10-31 · myth-correction, errata, marginalia, talmud, masorah
• Ancient correctors of authoritative texts — Galen's editing of classical works, scriptural emendation — preferred marking a passage as suspect over silently overwriting it, because they lacked standing to alter a text more authoritative than their own certainty
  claim seedling Tier 3 2026-10-31 · myth-correction, errata, marginalia, textual-scholarship, history-of-the-book
• The Masoretic Qere-Ketiv system recorded corrected readings in the margin, never substituting them into the Hebrew Bible's consonantal text, because the written letters were treated as unalterable
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-10-31 · myth-correction, errata, marginalia, masorah, talmud
• The Mishnah (Eduyot 1:4–6) states three explicit reasons for recording rejected and minority legal opinions beside the accepted ruling, rather than deleting them
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-31 · myth-correction, errata, marginalia, talmud, mishnah