Scribes and Their Remains (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Evans, Craig A.; Johnston, Jeremiah J.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Scribes and Their Remains begins with an introductory essay by Stanley Porter which addresses the principal theme of the book: the text as artifact. The rest of the volume is then split into two major sections. In the first, five studies appear on the theme of 'Scribes, Letters, and Literacy.' In the first of these Craig A. Evans offers a lengthy piece that argues that the archaeological, artifactual, and historical evidence suggests that New Testament autographs and first copies may well have remained in circulation for one century or more, having the effect of stabilizing the text. Other pieces in the section address literacy, orality and paleography of early Christian papyri. In the second section there are five pieces on 'Writing, Reading, and Abbreviating Christian Scripture.' These range across numerous topics, including an examination of the stauros (cross) as a nomen sacrum.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. September 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780567688057
• Artikelnr.: 57493802

Autorenporträt

Craig A. Evans is John Bisagno Distinguished Professor of Christian Origins at Houston Baptist University, USA. Jeremiah J. Johnston is the president of Christian Thinkers Society, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Editors Introduction Abbreviations Text as Artifact: An Introduction - Stanley E. Porter
McMaster Divinity College
Canada Part I: Scribes
Letters
and Literacy 1. Longevity of Late Antique Autographs and First Copies: A Postscriptum - Craig A. Evans
Houston Baptist University
USA 2. Greek Writ Plain: Village Scribes
Q
and the Palaeography of the Earliest Christian Papyri - Gregg Schwendner
Wichita State University
USA 3. My Lord and Protector: Papyri and Skepe Patronage in Sirach and 3 Maccabees - Christopher J. Cornthwaite
Canadian Institute in Greece
Greece 4. Hilarion's Letter to His Wife
Child Exposure
and Early Christianity - Jeremiah J. Johnston
Houston Baptist University
USA 5. Fetishizing the Word: Literacy
Orality and the Dead Sea Scrolls - Ian C. Werrett
St Martin's University
USA Part II: Writing
Reading
and Abbreviating Christian Scripture 6. Signed with an "X": Stauros and the Staurogram Among the Nomina Sacra - Benjamin R. Overcash
Macquarie University
USA 7. New Light from the Papyri: The Sacred Background of Biblos in Matthew 1:1 - Michael P. Theophilos
Australian Catholic University
Australia 8. The Early Papyri
"Gospel-Parallel" Variants
and the Text of the New Testament in the Second Century - Roy D. Kotansky
Independent Scholar 9. Terms of Kinship from Usage in Everyday Language to Official Christian Life - Eleonora Angela Conti
University of Florence
Italy 10. Early Christian Rolls - Marco Stroppa
University of Florence
Italy Index