Early Readers, Scholars and Editors of the New Testament
The study of the New Testament text is far broader than the reconstructionof its earliest attainable wording. As historical artefacts, manuscriptspreserve information about the context in which they were produced andtheir use in subsequent generations, as well as pointing back towards anearlier stag...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Gorgias Press; University of Birmingham
2014
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| In: | Year: 2014 |
| Reviews: | [Rezension von: Early readers, scholars, and editors of the New Testament] (2016) (Stevens, Chris S.)
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Christianity
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| Summary: | The study of the New Testament text is far broader than the reconstructionof its earliest attainable wording. As historical artefacts, manuscriptspreserve information about the context in which they were produced andtheir use in subsequent generations, as well as pointing back towards anearlier stage in the transmission process. References made by Christianauthors to the textual culture of the early Church, in addition to theirbiblical quotations and more general scriptural allusions, transmitinformation about the treatment of the documents as well as attitudes to(and the form of) the canonical text at the time. The task of the moderntextual scholar is as much to map the continuity of the New Testamenttradition as to reach behind it for a primitive form which was unknown tomost later users |
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| ISBN: | 1463204116 |