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.
Born 1952; 1981-84 church minister; 1987-92 lecturer at St. Philip's Theological College, Kongwa, Tanzania (East Africa); 1993-2003 lecturer in New Testament, since 2004 Senior Lecturer in New Testament at Sydney Missionary and Bible College; 2010 PhD.
Born 1952; 1981-84 church minister; 1987-92 lecturer at St. Philip's Theological College, Kongwa, Tanzania (East Africa); 1993-2003 lecturer in New Testament, since 2004 Senior Lecturer in New Testament at Sydney Missionary and Bible College; 2010 PhD.
Titel
Copying Early Christian Texts
Untertitel
A Study of Scribal Practice
Autor
EAN
9783161547607
ISBN
978-3-16-154760-7
Format
E-Book (pdf)
Hersteller
Herausgeber
Genre
Veröffentlichung
01.07.2016
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Adobe-DRM
Dateigrösse
3.6 MB
Anzahl Seiten
578
Jahr
2016
Untertitel
Englisch
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