Table of Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents V
3. Abbreviations IX
4. Authority in a Process 1
5. 1. Emergence of Authority
6. Tell Fekheriye Inscription 9
7. “Keeping Sabbath” 41
8. Living Serakhim 61
9. Passio Perpetuae and Acta Perpetuae 91
10. 2. Subsistence of Authority
11. Retracing Authoritative Traditions behind the Scriptural Texts 117
12. The Book Esther in Josephus 139
13. Papers or Principles? 151
14. “Scripture” and the “Memoirs of the Apostles” 165
15. Holy or Foolish? 179
16. Form as a Vehicle of Authority? 197
17. 3. Transmission of Authority
18. 3.1 Textual Transmission
19. Some “Interpretive” Variants in the Greek Text of John’s Gospel 213
20. Theologically Significant Textual Variants in the Pastoral Epistles 229
21. What Do the Variants of P⁴⁶ Say? 241
22. The Text of Mark 10:29–30 in Quis dives salvetur? by Clement of Alexandria 253
23. 3.2 Translation
24. Interpreting Ambiguity 273
25. Linguistic Peculiarities in the Syriac Versions of John 4:4–42 and their Theological Consequences 289
26. The Berlin “Coptic Book” and its New Testament Quotations 301
27. The True Text 319
28. Translation Tradition as a Source of Errors and Clichés in Modern Czech Translations of the New Testament 337
29. Index of sources 351