The Role of Omissions in the History of the Literary Development of the Greek Life of Adam and Eve
In this contribution it is argued that the textual history of the Greek Life of Adam and Eve is characterized as much by omissions as by additions. Moreover, the literary arguments that are commonly used in the text-critical debate on the priority of a longer or shorter reading have proved to be use...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brepols
2003
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Apocrypha
Year: 2003, Volume: 14, Pages: 257-276 |
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| Summary: | In this contribution it is argued that the textual history of the Greek Life of Adam and Eve is characterized as much by omissions as by additions. Moreover, the literary arguments that are commonly used in the text-critical debate on the priority of a longer or shorter reading have proved to be useless. The most primitive text should be established on purely text critical, stemmatic grounds. Only then can a copyist's or editor's motivations for having apparently added or omitted a specific passage be recovered. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Apocrypha
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1484/J.APOCRA.2.300242 |