Gospels before the book
What does it look like to read the gospels "before the book"? Larsen explores ancient textual culture and argues the earliest readers and users of the Gospel of Mark regarded it not as a book published by an author but as an unfinished notes.
| Summary: | What does it look like to read the gospels "before the book"? Larsen explores ancient textual culture and argues the earliest readers and users of the Gospel of Mark regarded it not as a book published by an author but as an unfinished notes. Cover -- GOSPELS BEFORE THE BOOK -- Copyright -- Contents -- Images and Illustrations -- Preface -- 1. Reading Gospels "before the Book" -- 2. Unfinished and Less Authored Texts -- Cicero, Caesar, and Hirtius -- Pliny the Younger and the Curious Case of the Exorbitantly Expensive Commentarii -- Plato and Hypomnēmata as Memory Aids and Working Texts -- Philo on Hypomnēmata and Their Potential Problems -- Plutarch's Creation and Use of Hypomnēmata -- Galen's Unfinished Texts -- Damis's Hypomnēmata as a Scrapbook of Textual Raw Material -- Conclusion -- 3. Accidental Publication and Postpublication Revision -- Cicero's Wound, Textual Healing, and Pseudepigraphical Pseudepigraphy -- Diodorus Siculus on How to Handle Accidental Publication -- Horace and Examples of Accidental Publication in the Ancient Roman Imagination -- The Idea of Accidental Publication as Asset: 4 Ezra -- Arrian as Writer but Not Author -- Cicero and the Inability to Control One's Own Manuscript Tradition -- Josephus on Pre-Writing, Rewriting, and Postpublication Revision -- 4. Multiple Authorized Versions of the Same Work -- Versions of the Community Rule as Memory Aids for Instructors -- The Herculaneum Library and the "Working Desk" of Philodemus -- Comparing the Scrolls in Qumran and Herculaneum -- Conclusion -- 5. The Earliest Readers of the Gospel according to Mark -- The Gospel according to Luke on the Gospel according to Mark -- Papias on the Gospel according to Mark -- Irenaeus on the Gospel according to Mark -- Clement of Alexandria and Eusebius on the Gospel according to Mark -- 6. The Earliest Users of the Gospel according to Mark -- The Gospel according to Matthew as Continuing the Gospel according to Mark -- The Many Endings of the Incomplete Gospel according to Mark -- Conclusion -- 7. Reading Mark as Unfinished. |
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| ISBN: | 0190848596 |