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Building a Book of Books : Textual Characteristics of the Early Greek Majuscule Pandects / Michael Dormandy.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Arbeiten zur neutestamentlichen Textforschung ; 54Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2024]Copyright date: 2024Description: 1 online resource (X, 382 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110994575
  • 9783110981377
  • 9783110981278
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 220.486
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Preliminary Notes -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Relevance and Methodology of the Project -- 2 Historical Background to the Four Pandects -- 3 Analysis of Variants in Romans -- 4 Analysis of Variants in John -- 5 Analysis of Variants in Revelation -- 6 Analysis of Variants in Sirach -- 7 Analysis of Variants in Judges -- 8 Results and Conclusions -- Bibliography
Summary: This book analyses how the early Greek whole-Bible manuscripts (pandects) change and preserve the text. Dormandy refutes the method based on singular readings and so investigates all the ways in which each pandect differs from the initial text, both changes introduced by its own scribe and by the scribes of earlier manuscripts. He surveys sample chapters in John, Romans, Revelation, Sirach and Judges (including discussing the “new finds” of Sinaiticus). Dormandy’s observations of Codex Ephraemi challenge accepted transcriptions. Dormandy argues that Sinaiticus and Vaticanus may plausibly have been made in response to commissions by Constantine and Constans. Dormandy concludes that generally, across all the Biblical books considered, the pandects preserve the initial text well. Transcriptional and linguistic variations are more common than harmonisations or changes of content. The more precise profiles of each manuscript vary between Biblical books. The pandects thus create bibliographic unity from textual diversity. This shows their significance in the history of the Christian Bible: they reflect in bibliographic form the hermeneutical move to consider all the books of the Christian Bible as one corpus.

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Preliminary Notes -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Relevance and Methodology of the Project -- 2 Historical Background to the Four Pandects -- 3 Analysis of Variants in Romans -- 4 Analysis of Variants in John -- 5 Analysis of Variants in Revelation -- 6 Analysis of Variants in Sirach -- 7 Analysis of Variants in Judges -- 8 Results and Conclusions -- Bibliography

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This book analyses how the early Greek whole-Bible manuscripts (pandects) change and preserve the text. Dormandy refutes the method based on singular readings and so investigates all the ways in which each pandect differs from the initial text, both changes introduced by its own scribe and by the scribes of earlier manuscripts. He surveys sample chapters in John, Romans, Revelation, Sirach and Judges (including discussing the “new finds” of Sinaiticus). Dormandy’s observations of Codex Ephraemi challenge accepted transcriptions. Dormandy argues that Sinaiticus and Vaticanus may plausibly have been made in response to commissions by Constantine and Constans. Dormandy concludes that generally, across all the Biblical books considered, the pandects preserve the initial text well. Transcriptional and linguistic variations are more common than harmonisations or changes of content. The more precise profiles of each manuscript vary between Biblical books. The pandects thus create bibliographic unity from textual diversity. This shows their significance in the history of the Christian Bible: they reflect in bibliographic form the hermeneutical move to consider all the books of the Christian Bible as one corpus.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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