Copying early Christian texts : a study of scribal practice /
It is widely believed that the early Christians copied their texts themselves without a great deal of expertise, and that some copyists introduced changes to support their theological beliefs. In this volume, however, Alan Mugridge examines all of the extant Greek papyri bearing Christian literature...
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| Format: | Thesis Book |
| Language: | English |
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Tübingen :
Mohr Siebeck,
[2016]
Tübingen : 2016 Tübingen : [2016] Tübingen : [2016] |
| Series: | Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament ;
362 Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 362 |
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| Summary: | It is widely believed that the early Christians copied their texts themselves without a great deal of expertise, and that some copyists introduced changes to support their theological beliefs. In this volume, however, Alan Mugridge examines all of the extant Greek papyri bearing Christian literature up to the end of the 4th century, as well as several comparative groups of papyri, and concludes that, on the whole, Christian texts, like most literary texts in the Roman world, were copied by trained scribes. Professional Christian scribes probably became more common after the time of Constantine, but this study suggests that in the early centuries the copyists of Christian texts in Greek were normally trained scribes, Christian or not, who reproduced those texts as part of their trade and, while they made mistakes, copied them as accurately as any other texts they were called upon to copy -- |
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| Item Description: | This WorldCat-derived record is shareable under Open Data Commons ODC-BY, with attribution to OCLC |
| Physical Description: | xx, 558 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 414-443) and indexes Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| ISBN: | 3161546881 (hd.bd.) 3161546881 9783161546884 (hd.bd.) 9783161546884 |