Accidental Publication, Unfinished Texts and the Traditional Goals of New Testament Textual Criticism
Notions of ‘authorship’, ‘publication’ and ‘final text’ are often mentioned in traditional textual criticism, but less frequently discussed in detail. The projects of source and redaction criticism end and textual criticism begins based on when scholars imagine a text was finished. Yet modern notions...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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[2017]
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Journal for the study of the New Testament
Year: 2017, Volume: 39, Issue: 4, Pages: 362-387 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Classical antiquity
/ Book
/ Publication
/ Archetype
/ Textual criticism
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| IxTheo Classification: | TB Antiquity |
| Further subjects: | B
Bible. Mark
B Textual Criticism B Bible. Matthew B Authorship B Publications B endings of Mark B ANCIENT literature B Matthew B Mark B ancient publication B Bible Criticism, Redaction |
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| Summary: | Notions of ‘authorship’, ‘publication’ and ‘final text’ are often mentioned in traditional textual criticism, but less frequently discussed in detail. The projects of source and redaction criticism end and textual criticism begins based on when scholars imagine a text was finished. Yet modern notions of publication, textuality and authorship, which are largely shaped by the printing press, are often anachronistically applied to the ancient world. Exploring evidence from Plato to 4Ezra to Tertullian and Augustine, I take up the question of when a text was considered ‘final’ by reconsidering what counted as publication in the ancient world. Once the assumption of textual finalization is set aside, the tools traditionally associated with textual, source and redaction criticism become unhelpful. While textual critics have noted the practical impossibilities of arriving at the ‘original text’, I demonstrate the conceptual roadblocks to imagining an ‘original’ and ‘final’ text in the ancient world. |
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| ISSN: | 1745-5294 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal for the study of the New Testament
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0142064X17705592 |