The Edited Bible. The Curious History of the ‘Editor’ in Biblical Criticism. By John Van Seters
It is generally accepted, says Van Seters, that the Bible as we know it today is the product of many editors or redactors. The central argument of his book is that this assumption depends on an anachronistic understanding of what editors or redactors do. To make his case, Van Seters traces the histo...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2007
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2007, Volume: 58, Issue: 2, Pages: 557-559 |
| Review of: | The edited Bible (Winona Lake, Ind. : Eisenbrauns, 2006) (Morgan, Teresa)
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Book review
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| Summary: | It is generally accepted, says Van Seters, that the Bible as we know it today is the product of many editors or redactors. The central argument of his book is that this assumption depends on an anachronistic understanding of what editors or redactors do. To make his case, Van Seters traces the history of editing from antiquity to the present day, in the historically related but recently divergent disciplines of classical and biblical scholarship., On the classical side, the history of Homeric scholarship makes an obvious focus for investigation. The earliest evidence of anything we can call editorial activity comes from the Alexandrian Museum. Alexandrian grammarians aimed to establish a ‘best text’ of Homer. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flm030 |