Papyrology as an Art of Destruction

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Alfred Chester Beatty and his Biblical (and other) Papyri at Ninety 1
4. Papyrology in its Second Century, and the Chester Beatty 7
5. Decolonizing the Troubled Archive(s) of Papyri and Papyrology 19
6. The Bodmer Papyri and the Chester Beatty 37
7. An Old Story Retold: The Acquisition of the Chester Beatty Biblical Papyri 51
8. Reading across the Archives: Mining the Beatty Narrative 83
9. Papyrology as an Art of Destruction 97
10. Scribal “Faithfulness” and the Text-Critical Imaginary 107
11. The Threads that Bind: Evidence of the Early Codex Structure in Chester Beatty’s Papyri 121
12. Beyond Palaeography: Text, Paratext and Dating of Early Christian Papyri 143
13. The Papyri and the Septuagint: Chester Beatty Papyrus 967 and the Greek Texts of the Book of Esther 155
14. The Apocalypse of Elijah in the Context of Coptic Apocrypha 161
15. Characterising Discipleship in the Fifth Manichaean Psalm of Heracleides: Women’s Participation in Late Antique Egypt 175
16. Manuscripts Index 193
17. Ancient Texts Index 195
18. Subject Index 197