The Erotic Life of Manuscripts
New Testament Textual Criticism and the Biological Sciences
Since the New Testament's inception as written text, its manuscripts have been subject to all the dangers of history: scribal error, emendation, injury, and total destruction. The traditional goal of modern textual criticism has been to reconstruct an original text from surviving manuscripts, adjudicating among all the variant texts resulting from the slips, additions, and embellishments of scribal hand-copying.Because of the way manuscripts circulate and give rise to new copies, it can be said that they have an erotic life: they mate and breed, bear offspring, and generate families and descendants. New Testament textual critics of the eighte…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-19-049368-4
- EAN: 9780190493684
- Produktnummer: 19556934
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 522 KB
- Abbildungen: 1 illus.
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Yii-Jan Lin is Assistant Professor of New Testament at the Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, California. She received her PhD in religious studies from Yale University and an MA in English literature from the University of Chicago.
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