Delivering textual diaspora: Building digital cultural repositories as rhetoric research

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Abstract

This essay considers the dispersed Samaritan manuscripts as a challenge for digital and rhetorical scholars. Although the entire Samaritan population of 760 lives in Israel and the Palestinian Authority, most of their manuscripts are housed in libraries, collections, and museums across the world. Drawing on interviews and archival research, I introduce the term textual diaspora to describe how some Samaritan Elders are strategically thinking about the future digital delivery of manuscripts in diaspora, and I suggest the importance of engaging with stakeholders when building digital repositories in the humanities.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)136-151
Number of pages16
JournalCollege English
Volume76
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Nov 2013

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Language and Linguistics
  • Education

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