Building a Book of Books: Textual Characteristics of the Early Greek Majuscule Pandects

Michael Dormandy

Published by De Gruyter 2024

Building a Book of Books

Textual Characteristics of the Early Greek Majuscule Pandects

Michael Dormandy

Volume 54 in the series Arbeiten zur neutestamentlichen Textforschung

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110981278

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This book analyses how the early Greek whole-Bible manuscripts (pandects) change and preserve the text. Dormandy refutes the method based on singular readings and so investigates all the ways in which each pandect differs from the initial text, both changes introduced by its own scribe and by the scribes of earlier manuscripts. He surveys sample chapters in John, Romans, Revelation, Sirach and Judges (including discussing the “new finds” of Sinaiticus). Dormandy’s observations of Codex Ephraemi challenge accepted transcriptions. Dormandy argues that Sinaiticus and Vaticanus may plausibly have been made in response to commissions by Constantine and Constans. Dormandy concludes that generally, across all the Biblical books considered, the pandects preserve the initial text well. Transcriptional and linguistic variations are more common than harmonisations or changes of content. The more precise profiles of each manuscript vary between Biblical books. The pandects thus create bibliographic unity from textual diversity. This shows their significance in the history of the Christian Bible: they reflect in bibliographic form the hermeneutical move to consider all the books of the Christian Bible as one corpus.

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Michael Dormandy, University of Innsbruck, Austria.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Preliminary Notes Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1 Relevance and Methodology of the Project Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
2 Historical Background to the Four Pandects Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
3 Analysis of Variants in Romans Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	47
4 Analysis of Variants in John Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
5 Analysis of Variants in Revelation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	170
6 Analysis of Variants in Sirach Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	245
7 Analysis of Variants in Judges Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	280
8 Results and Conclusions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	340
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	359

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Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Forschende zu den Themen Neues Testament und Septuaginta, Geschichte der Bibel, Patristik.
Pages
- Front matter: 10
- Main content: 382
Illustrations
- Coloured Illustrations: 73
- Tables: 11
Keywords: New Testament textual criticism; Septuagint textual criticism; manuscripts; Greek.

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Published: February 19, 2024
ISBN: 9783110981278

Hardcover

Published: February 19, 2024
ISBN: 9783110994575