Copying Early Christian Texts: A study of scribal practiceMohr Siebeck, 2016 M07 19 - 578 páginas It is widely believed that the early Christians copied their texts themselves without a great deal of expertise, and that some copyists introduced changes to support their theological beliefs. In this volume, however, Alan Mugridge examines all of the extant Greek papyri bearing Christian literature up to the end of the 4th century, as well as several comparative groups of papyri, and concludes that, on the whole, Christian texts, like most literary texts in the Roman world, were copied by trained scribes. Professional Christian scribes probably became more common after the time of Constantine, but this study suggests that in the early centuries the copyists of Christian texts in Greek were normally trained scribes, Christian or not, who reproduced those texts as part of their trade and, while they made mistakes, copied them as accurately as any other texts they were called upon to copy. |
Contenido
The papyri and their handwriting | 1 |
Material | 7 |
Writers and writing in the Roman Imperial period | 11 |
The writers and writing of the papyri | 20 |
Size | 21 |
Content material form and size 26 2222 | 26 |
a Codices | 38 |
Conclusion | 49 |
Marginal notes | 108 |
Abbreviations | 117 |
Stichometric counts | 137 |
51 | 145 |
Copyists and faith | 151 |
60 | 156 |
64 | 177 |
69 | 184 |
Codices | 57 |
Sheets | 70 |
Titles and headings | 76 |
Punctuation | 82 |
Conclusion | 90 |
Writing the text | 92 |
Lines per column | 100 |
71 | 190 |
Excluded papyri | 411 |
Tables | 445 |
518 | |
537 | |
554 | |
Términos y frases comunes
abbreviations Aegyptus ÄMB Amulet Aphroditopolis Apocrypha Bibl biblical uncial bilinear black ink Blumell calligraphic Chester Beatty Library Christian Oxyrhynchus Christian papyri Christian texts Codex Sinaiticus Codex Vaticanus codices column comparative papyri Cont contained the whole copied Coptic copyist Cribiore CSNTM cursive elements Early Christian Egypt Publ full form Gospel Greek Group G handwriting categories indicate the hand INTF irregular Jaroš Jewish LDAB leaf letter formation lines of writing magical makron manuscripts margin Neue Testament nomen sacrum nomina sacra NT Apocrypha number of papyri ÖNV Oxyrhynchus Publ P.Oxy papyri in Group Papyrology Papyrology Rooms papyrus codex Parch parchment codex Plate probably originally contained Prov Psalm Rahlfs Römer Sackler Library scribal scriptorium trained scribe writing Treu triliteral triliteral forms uncial unskilled writers upright uncial variation in letter verso Verzeichnis² vHTR Wayment Website whole book written in black