To cast the first stone: the transmission of a gospel story
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Loose Texts, Loose Women -- Plan of the Work -- PART I. A CASE OF TEXTUAL CORRUPTION? -- 1 The Pericope Adulterae and the Rise of Modern New Testament Schola...
| Summary: | Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Loose Texts, Loose Women -- Plan of the Work -- PART I. A CASE OF TEXTUAL CORRUPTION? -- 1 The Pericope Adulterae and the Rise of Modern New Testament Scholarship -- The Pericope Adulterae and the Rise of Modern Textual Criticism -- The Demise of the Textus Receptus -- The Defense of the "Majority Text" -- The Pericope Adulterae and Biblical Scholarship -- A History of the Pericope Adulterae -- PART II. THE PRESENT AND ABSENT PERICOPE ADULTERAE -- 2 The Strange Case of the Missing Adulteress -- Citation Habits and Ancient Literary Methods -- Allusions to the Pericope Adulterae -- The Transmission of the Gospel of John in the Second and Third Centuries -- Book Copying, Book Collecting, and the Material Gospels -- The Format of John -- Textual Correction (Διόρθωσις) and the Text of John in the Third Century -- Agrapha and the Gospel Tradition -- Introducing the Adulteress -- 3 Was the Pericope Adulterae Suppressed? Part I: Ancient Editorial Practice and the (Un)Likelihood of Outright Deletion -- The Suppression Theory from Augustine until Today -- Marcion, Theological Bowdlerizing, and "Taking Away from" the Scriptures -- Marcion's New Testament -- Scribal Habits, Textual Omissions, and the Possible Deletion of the Pericope Adulterae -- The Pericope Adulterae and the Discipline of Textual Correction -- Correction (διόρθωσις), the Corrector (διορθωτής), and the Scholarly Edition (ἐκδόσις) -- Origen the Διορθωτής -- An Unlikely Deletion -- 4 Was the Pericope Adulterae Suppressed? Part II: Adulteresses and Their Opposites -- Prostitutes and Adulteresses from the Gospels to Roman Law -- Heroines of Israel -- Roman Chastity -- Stories People Want -- A Slandered Adulteress -- An Adulteress Forgiven Driving Out the Adulteress -- The Adulteress Found -- PART III. A DIVIDED TRADITION? THE PERICOPE ADULTERAE EAST AND WEST -- 5 "In Certain Gospels"? The Pericope Adulterae and the Fourfold Gospel Tradition -- The Pericope Adulterae and the Fourth-Century Greek Text of John -- Eusebius, the Bible, and the Text of the Gospels in the Fourth Century -- Eusebius and Fourth-Century Biblical Production -- Sinaiticus, Vaticanus, and the Problem of Provenance -- Was the Johannine Pericope Adulterae Deleted at a Later Date? -- Didymus the Blind and the Text of John in Egypt -- In Some Copies -- In the Gospels -- Jesus, the Adulteress, and Didymus the Blind -- Traces of the Pericope Adulterae in Egypt -- 6 "In Many Copies": The Pericope Adulterae in the Latin West -- Ambrose and the Old Latin Text of the Pericope Adulterae -- The Pericope Adulterae and the Making of the Vulgate Gospels -- "In Many Copies": The Pericope Adulterae in Jerome's Against the Pelagians -- Codex Bezae and the Johannine Pericope Adulterae -- In Certain Gospels -- PART IV. LITURGICAL AND SCHOLARLY AFTERLIVES OF THE PERICOPE ADULTERAE -- 7 A Pearl of the Gospel: The Pericope Adulterae in Late Antiquity -- The Tenacity of the Pericope Adulterae -- Capitula, Kephalaia, and the Johannine Pericope Adulterae -- Latin Capitula and the Greek Pericope Adulterae -- The Greek Kephalaia and the History of the Pericope Adulterae -- The Pericope Adulterae and the Development of the Byzantine Liturgy -- The Significance of Skipping -- The Constantinopolitan Liturgy and the Transmission of the Pericope Adulterae -- A Treasured Pearl -- 8 Telling Stories in Church: The Early Medieval Liturgy and the Reception of the Pericope Adulterae -- The Roman and Constantinopolitan Lectionaries and the Reception of the Pericope Adulterae -- The Impact of the Roman Lectionary What Is Heard: Traces of the Pericope Adulterae in the Byzantine Liturgy -- What Is Seen: Traces of the Pericope Adulterae in Byzantine Art -- The Pericope Adulterae between East and West -- Concluding Reflections: An Enduring Memory -- Bibliography -- Index of Scripture and Other Ancient Writings -- Index of Manuscripts -- Subject Index |
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| ISBN: | 0691184461 |