New Treasures as Well as Old: The Use and Reuse of the Gospel Kephalalaia in Commentary Manuscripts
This article looks at one of the oldest and most stable Greek gospel paratexts, the kephalaia (known also as the Old Greek Chapters) and their use in gospel commentary manuscripts. Although their original purpose remains the subject of speculation, the kephalaia fulfill various practical functions,...
| Subtitles: | Special Feature: Decentralizing the Biblical Text in Greek New Testament Manuscripts |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2023
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TC
Year: 2023, Volume: 28, Pages: 167-182 |
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| Summary: | This article looks at one of the oldest and most stable Greek gospel paratexts, the kephalaia (known also as the Old Greek Chapters) and their use in gospel commentary manuscripts. Although their original purpose remains the subject of speculation, the kephalaia fulfill various practical functions, acting as a bookmarking tool through the marginal placement of titloi and as an exegetical lens, since each kephalaion brings into focus one particular event or theme of the gospel story. As part of the standard paratextual furniture of gospel books since antiquity, the kephalaia also appear in many gospel commentaries, usually in unaltered form, where they also operate as structuring elements for the lemmata or as section headings for the ensuing commentary text. A few commentary manuscripts, however, feature kephalaia lists that are greatly expanded and specially adapted to the commentary text. This article will focus on one particular set of commentary kephalaia attested in three manuscripts and examine the additions, alterations, and refinements that the standard lists and titloi undergo to suit them to the commentary’s contents. It will also consider how an expanded kephalaia system might affect the reader’s approach to both the biblical and the commentary text in a way that differs from how the kephalaia mediate the text in a standard gospel manuscript. |
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| ISSN: | 1089-7747 |
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