Snapshots of Evolving Traditions
-
Edited by:
Liv Ingeborg Lied
About this book
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.
Author / Editor information
Liv Ingeborg Lied, MF Norwegian School of Theology, Oslo and Hugo Lundhaug, University of Oslo, Norway.
Topics
-
Download PDFPublicly Available
Frontmatter
I -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Preface
VII -
Download PDFPublicly Available
Table of Contents
IX -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
List of contributors
XI -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Images
XII -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Abbreviations
XIII -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Studying Snapshots: On Manuscript Culture, Textual Fluidity, and New Philology
1 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
An Illusion of Textual Stability: Textual Fluidity, New Philology, and the Nag Hammadi Codices
20 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Reading Variants in James and the Apocalypse of James: A Perspective from New Philology
55 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
The Making of a Secret Book of John: Nag Hammadi Codex III in Light of New Philology
85 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Two Witnesses, One Valentinian Gospel? The Gospel of Truth in Nag Hammadi Codices I and XII
126 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Monastic Paideia and Textual Fluidity in the Classroom
146 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Textual Fluidity in Early Monasticism: Sayings, Sermons and Stories
178 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Four Texts from Nag Hammadi amid the Textual and Generic Fluidity of the “Letter” in the Literature of Late Antique Egypt
201 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Know Thy Enemy: The Materialization of Orthodoxy in Syriac Manuscripts
221 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
“You Have Found What You Seek”: The Form and Function of a Sixth-Century Divinatory Bible in Syriac
242 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Between “Text Witness” and “Text on the Page”: Trajectories in the History of Editing the Epistle of Baruch
272 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
The End of the Psalms in the Dead Sea Scrolls, Greek Codices, and Syriac Manuscripts
297 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Translating the Hekhalot Literature: Insights from New Philology
323 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Indices
347
-
Manufacturer information:
Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Genthiner Straße 13
10785 Berlin
productsafety@degruyterbrill.com
