Citation, obliteration, and plagiarism, as discussed in ancient Jewish sources

Bella Hass Weinberg

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2010, vol. 61, issue 11, 2337-2364

Abstract: The preface to a 16th‐century Hebrew book entitled Devek Tov, a supercommentary on the Pentateuch, includes an apology by the author for not citing all his sources. In his defense, he cites a passage in the Jerusalem Talmud that discusses the obliteration phenomenon. Following the trail of Jewish sayings on the importance of citation leads to a discussion of stealing ideas, i.e., plagiarism. Details of the search process, cataloging issues, incomplete indexes, and descriptions of complex locator systems found in Hebrew texts, concordances, and full‐text databases are included. This detective work led to the discovery that Devek Tov was itself obliterated by incorporation into a later commentary on the Pentateuch.

Date: 2010
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