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Record Nr.

UNINA9910796689103321

Titolo

The process of authority : the dynamics in transmission and reception of canonical texts / / edited by Jan Dusek and Jan Roskovec

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, [Germany] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : De Gruyter, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

3-11-039953-9

3-11-039939-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (376 p.)

Collana

Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Studies ; ; Volume 27

Disciplina

220.1

Soggetti

Transmission of texts

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Abbreviations -- Authority in a Process -- Tell Fekheriye Inscription -- “Keeping Sabbath” -- Living Serakhim -- Passio Perpetuae and Acta Perpetuae -- Retracing Authoritative Traditions behind the Scriptural Texts -- The Book Esther in Josephus -- Papers or Principles? -- “Scripture” and the “Memoirs of the Apostles” -- Holy or Foolish? -- Form as a Vehicle of Authority? -- Some “Interpretive” Variants in the Greek Text of John’s Gospel -- Theologically Significant Textual Variants in the Pastoral Epistles -- What Do the Variants of P46 Say? -- The Text of Mark 10:29–30 in Quis dives salvetur? by Clement of Alexandria -- Interpreting Ambiguity -- Linguistic Peculiarities in the Syriac Versions of John 4:4–42 and their Theological Consequences -- The Berlin “Coptic Book” and its New Testament Quotations -- The True Text -- Translation Tradition as a Source of Errors and Clichés in Modern Czech Translations of the New Testament -- Index of sources

Sommario/riassunto

The authority of canonical texts, especially of the Bible, is often described in static definitions. However, the authority of these texts was acquired as well as exercised in a dynamic process of transmission and reception. This book analyzes selected aspects of this historical process. Attention is paid to biblical master-texts and to other texts related to the “biblical worlds” in various historical periods and



contexts. The studies examine particular texts, textual variants, translations, paraphrases and other elements in the process of textual transmission. The range covered spans from the Iron Age, through the Old Testament texts, their manuscripts and other texts from Qumran, the Septuagint, down to the New Testament, Apocrypha, Coptic texts, Patristics, and even modern translations of the Bible. The book is particularly intended for those interested in the history of reception and transmission of biblical texts and in the textual criticism.