Texts and Artefacts: Selected Essays on Textual Criticism and Early Christian Manuscripts Contributor(s): Hurtado, Larry W. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0567677710 ISBN-13: 9780567677716 Publisher: Continnuum-3PL OUR PRICE: $158.40 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2017 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Religion | Biblical Studies - New Testament - General |
Dewey: 225.486 |
LCCN: 2017032160 |
Series: Library of New Testament Studies |
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.1" W x 9.3" (1.25 lbs) 256 pages |
Themes: - Religious Orientation - Christian |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: The essays included in this volume present Larry W. Hurtado's steadfast analysis of the earliest Christian manuscripts. In these chapters, Hurtado considers not only standard text-critical issues which seek to uncover an earliest possible version of a text, but also the very manuscripts that are available to us. As one of the pre-eminent scholars of the field, Hurtado examines often overlooked 2nd and 3rd century artefacts, which are among the earliest manuscripts available, drawing fascinating conclusions about the features of early Christianity. Divided into two halves, the first part of the volume addresses text-critical and text-historical issues about the textual transmission of various New Testament writings. The second part looks at manuscripts as physical and visual artefacts themselves, exploring the metadata and sociology of their context and the nature of their first readers, for the light cast upon early Christianity. Whilst these essays are presented together here as a republished collection, Hurtado has made several updates across the collection to draw them together and to reflect on the developing nature of the issues that they address since they were first written. |
Contributor Bio(s): Hurtado, Larry W.: - Larry W. Hurtado is Professor Emeritus of New Testament Language, Literature and Theology, University of Edinburgh.Keith, Chris: - Chris Keith is Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity and Director of the Centre for the Social-Scientific Study of the Bible at St. Mary's University College, Twickenham, UK. He is the author of The Pericope Adulterae, the Gospel of John and the Literacy of Jesus, a winner of the 2010 John Templeton Award for Theological Promise, and Jesus' Literacy: Scribal Culture and the Teacher from Galilee. He is also the co-editor of Jesus among Friends and Enemies: A Historical and Literary Introduction to Jesus in the Gospels, and was recently named a 2012 Society of Biblical Literature Regional Scholar. |