Philosophical Variants in Aristotle: The Text of Metaphysics Α and Plato’s Theories of Forms and Principles

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Preface v
3. Contents xvii
4. Errors or Innovation? Variants in Mesopotamian Literary, Cultic, and Pedagogical Texts from the Early Second Millennium BCE 1
5. “Variant”, variation and pāṭha in Sanskrit 37
6. Seeing Shadows in the Shade: The Narrative Quality of Textual Variants and the History of Buddhism in South and Southeast Asia 85
7. The Legacy of Diversity in Medieval East Asia: The Staying Power of Variants in Chinese-Language Buddhist Texts 109
8. Textual Variants in Early China 151
9. Frivolous Words on Bamboo and Silk: The Textual Criticism of Zheng Xuan 鄭玄 (127–200) 207
10. Textual Variants in Homer: An Overview 231
11. Philosophical Variants in Aristotle: The Text of Metaphysics Α and Plato’s Theories of Forms and Principles 257
12. Interpolation in Latin Poetry 291
13. The Textual Tradition of the Babylonian Talmud 311
14. Miscarriage of Justice and Dissenting Re(d)actions in Kalīla and Dimna 337
15. Taṣḥīf in the Arabic tradition: Variant Readings or Textual Corruption? 377
16. The Textual Variant Unchained: Medieval Europe 391
17. A Lax Attitude to the Word of God? Medieval Scholars and Variants in the Latin Bible 413
18. Postscript: Variants of What? Variation on the Variant 437
19. Index of Subjects 447
20. Index of Persons 451
21. Index of Works 455