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Title Snapshots of evolving traditions : Jewish and Christian manuscript culture, textual fluidity, and new philology / edited by Liv Ingeborg Lied & Hugo Lundhaug
Published Berlin/Boston, GERMANY : De Gruyter, [2017]
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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 366 pages) : illustrations (some color), facsimiles (some color)
Series Texte und Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der altchristlichen Literatur (TU), 0082-3589 ; Band 175
Texte und Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der altchristlichen Literatur ; Bd. 175.
Contents Frontmatter -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- List of contributors -- Images -- Abbreviations -- Studying Snapshots: On Manuscript Culture, Textual Fluidity, and New Philology -- An Illusion of Textual Stability: Textual Fluidity, New Philology, and the Nag Hammadi Codices -- Reading Variants in James and the Apocalypse of James: A Perspective from New Philology -- The Making of a Secret Book of John: Nag Hammadi Codex III in Light of New Philology -- Two Witnesses, One Valentinian Gospel? The Gospel of Truth in Nag Hammadi Codices I and XII -- Monastic Paideia and Textual Fluidity in the Classroom -- Textual Fluidity in Early Monasticism: Sayings, Sermons and Stories -- Four Texts from Nag Hammadi amid the Textual and Generic Fluidity of the "Letter" in the Literature of Late Antique Egypt -- Know Thy Enemy: The Materialization of Orthodoxy in Syriac Manuscripts -- "You Have Found What You Seek": The Form and Function of a Sixth-Century Divinatory Bible in Syriac -- Between "Text Witness" and "Text on the Page": Trajectories in the History of Editing the Epistle of Baruch -- The End of the Psalms in the Dead Sea Scrolls, Greek Codices, and Syriac Manuscripts -- Translating the Hekhalot Literature: Insights from New Philology -- Indices
Summary Scholars of early Christian and Jewish literature have for many years focused on interpreting texts in their hypothetical original forms and contexts, while largely overlooking important aspects of the surviving manuscript evidence and the culture that produced it. This volume of essays seeks to remedy this situation by focusing on the material aspects of the manuscripts themselves and the fluidity of textual transmission in a manuscript culture. With an emphasis on method and looking at texts as they have been used and transmitted in manuscripts, this book discusses how we may deal with textual evidence that can often be described as mere snapshots of fluid textual traditions that have been intentionally adapted to fit ever-shifting contexts. The emphasis of the book is on the contexts and interests of users and producers of texts as they appear in our surviving manuscripts, rather than on original authors and their intentions, and the essays provide both important correctives to former textual interpretations, as well as new insights into the societies and individuals that copied and read the texts in the manuscripts that have actually been preserved to us
Analysis (Produktform)Electronic book text
(Zielgruppe)Fachpublikum/ Wissenschaft
(BISAC Subject Heading)REL006100
(BISAC Subject Heading)REL006090: REL006090 RELIGION / Bible / Criticism, Interpretation / Old Testament
(BISAC Subject Heading)REL072000: REL072000 RELIGION / Antiquities & Archaeology
(BISAC Subject Heading)REL040030: REL040030 RELIGION / Judaism / History
(BISAC Subject Heading)REL015000: REL015000 RELIGION / Christianity / History
(BISAC Subject Heading)REL040040: REL040040 RELIGION / Judaism / Sacred Writings
(BISAC Subject Heading)REL033000: REL033000 RELIGION / History
New Philology; textual fluidity; manuscript culture; exegesis
(VLB-WN)9542
exegesis
New Philology
manuscript culture
textual fluidity
(Produktrabattgruppe)PR: rabattbeschränkt/Bibliothekswerke
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes In English
Description based on print version record
SUBJECT Bible. Apocrypha -- Criticism, Textual
Bible. Apocrypha -- Manuscripts
Nag Hammadi codices. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81020972
Bible. Apocrypha fast
Nag Hammadi codices fast
Subject Criticism, Textual.
Transmission of texts.
Apocryphal books (New Testament) -- Manuscripts
Christian literature, Early -- Manuscripts
Christian literature, Early -- Criticism, Textual
Apocryphal books (Old Testament) -- Manuscripts
Jewish literature -- Manuscripts
Jewish literature -- Criticism, Textual
Ancient religions & mythologies.
Judaism.
Judaism: sacred texts.
The Early Church.
RELIGION -- Christianity -- General.
Apocryphal books (New Testament)
Apocryphal books (Old Testament)
Christian literature, Early
Criticism, Textual
Jewish literature
Transmission of texts
Frühjudentum
Frühchristentum
Literatur
Handschriftenkunde
New philology
Genre/Form Electronic books
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Manuscripts
Form Electronic book
Author Lied, Liv Ingeborg, editor.
Lundhaug, Hugo, editor.
LC no. 2016517041
ISBN 9783110348057
3110348055
9783110348064
3110348063
9783110383973
3110383977