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Building a Book of Books
Textual Characteristics of the Early Greek Majuscule Pandects
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Michael Dormandy
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English
Published/Copyright:
2024
About this book
This book analyses how the early Greek whole-Bible manuscripts (pandects) change and preserve the text. Dormandy refutes the method based on singular readings and so investigates all the ways in which each pandect differs from the initial text, both changes introduced by its own scribe and by the scribes of earlier manuscripts. He surveys sample chapters in John, Romans, Revelation, Sirach and Judges (including discussing the “new finds” of Sinaiticus). Dormandy’s observations of Codex Ephraemi challenge accepted transcriptions. Dormandy argues that Sinaiticus and Vaticanus may plausibly have been made in response to commissions by Constantine and Constans. Dormandy concludes that generally, across all the Biblical books considered, the pandects preserve the initial text well. Transcriptional and linguistic variations are more common than harmonisations or changes of content. The more precise profiles of each manuscript vary between Biblical books. The pandects thus create bibliographic unity from textual diversity. This shows their significance in the history of the Christian Bible: they reflect in bibliographic form the hermeneutical move to consider all the books of the Christian Bible as one corpus.
Author / Editor information
Michael Dormandy, University of Innsbruck, Austria.
Reviews
“His study [...] confirms that most readings are not content changes and thus not theologically motivated. The scribes of the pandects generally sought to copy the text(s) in front of them accurately rather than to create their own based on a theological agenda. At a time when textual critics are reevaluating the value of these works for the field, a study such as Dormandy’s is a welcome and valuable contribution.” Dalton Hicks, in TC, A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism 29 (2024): 295–302.
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eBook published on:
February 19, 2024
eBook ISBN:
9783110981278
Hardcover published on:
February 19, 2024
Hardcover ISBN:
9783110994575
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Front matter:
10
Main content:
382
Coloured Illustrations:
73
Tables:
11
Keywords for this book
New Testament textual criticism; Septuagint textual criticism; manuscripts; Greek.
Audience(s) for this book
Forschende zu den Themen Neues Testament und Septuaginta, Geschichte der Bibel, Patristik.
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