TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dormandy,Michael
TI  - Building a Book of Books: Textual Characteristics of the Early Greek Majuscule Pandects 
T2  - Arbeiten zur neutestamentlichen Textforschung ,
SN  - 9783110994575
U1  - 220.486 
PY  - 2024///]
CY  - Berlin, Boston
PB  - De Gruyter
KW  - Manuscripts, Greek
KW  - DLC
KW  - RELIGION / Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / New Testament
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Greek
KW  - New Testament textual criticism
KW  - Septuagint textual criticism
KW  - manuscripts
N1  - 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; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110981278
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110981278
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ER  -