“You Have Found What You Seek”: The Form and Function of a Sixth-Century Divinatory Bible in Syriac

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface VII
3. Table of Contents IX
4. List of contributors XI
5. Images XII
6. Abbreviations XIII
7. Studying Snapshots: On Manuscript Culture, Textual Fluidity, and New Philology 1
8. An Illusion of Textual Stability: Textual Fluidity, New Philology, and the Nag Hammadi Codices 20
9. Reading Variants in James and the Apocalypse of James: A Perspective from New Philology 55
10. The Making of a Secret Book of John: Nag Hammadi Codex III in Light of New Philology 85
11. Two Witnesses, One Valentinian Gospel? The Gospel of Truth in Nag Hammadi Codices I and XII 126
12. Monastic Paideia and Textual Fluidity in the Classroom 146
13. Textual Fluidity in Early Monasticism: Sayings, Sermons and Stories 178
14. Four Texts from Nag Hammadi amid the Textual and Generic Fluidity of the “Letter” in the Literature of Late Antique Egypt 201
15. Know Thy Enemy: The Materialization of Orthodoxy in Syriac Manuscripts 221
16. “You Have Found What You Seek”: The Form and Function of a Sixth-Century Divinatory Bible in Syriac 242
17. Between “Text Witness” and “Text on the Page”: Trajectories in the History of Editing the Epistle of Baruch 272
18. The End of the Psalms in the Dead Sea Scrolls, Greek Codices, and Syriac Manuscripts 297
19. Translating the Hekhalot Literature: Insights from New Philology 323
20. Indices 347