Mugridge Copying Early Christian Texts

A Study of Scribal Practice
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-3-16-154760-7
Verlag: Mohr Siebeck
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E-Book, Englisch, Band 362, 578 Seiten

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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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mugridge, Alan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften Neues Testament: Exegese, Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte Frühes Christentum, Patristik, Christliche Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historische Hilfswissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Cover;1
2;Preface;8
3;Contents;12
4;List of Figures and Graphs;16
5;Abbreviations & Sigla;17
6;Glossary;20
7;Chapter 1: The papyri and their handwriting;22
7.1;1. Purpose and argument of this book;22
7.1.1;a. Purpose;22
7.1.2;b. Argument;23
7.2;2. The papyri in this study – Christian papyri and the comparison set;23
7.2.1;a. ‘Christian’ papyri;23
7.2.2;b. The comparison set;26
7.2.3;c. Dates;27
7.2.4;d. Language;28
7.2.5;e. ‘Papyri’;28
7.2.6;f. Papyri including other Greek texts;29
7.2.7;g. Provenance;30
7.2.8;h. Code numbers;31
7.3;3. Writers and writing in the Roman Imperial period;32
7.3.1;a. Writers;32
7.3.1.1;i. ‘Slow-writers’;32
7.3.1.2;ii. ‘Occasional writers’;33
7.3.1.3;iii. ‘Scribes’;34
7.3.2;b. Writing in the early Roman Imperial period;39
7.4;4. The writers and writing of the papyri;41
7.4.1;a. Levels of competence;41
7.4.2;b. Classification of the writing and writers of the papyri;42
8;Chapter 2: Content, material, form and size;47
8.1;1. Content;47
8.1.1;a. Textual content;47
8.1.2;b. Other languages ;50
8.2;2. Material;51
8.2.1;a. Writing surface;52
8.2.2;b. Re-use of a papyrus;54
8.3;3. Form;56
8.4;4. Size;59
8.4.1;a. Codices;59
8.4.1.1;i. Papyrus codices;60
8.4.1.2;ii. Parchment codices;63
8.4.2;b. Rolls;66
8.4.3;c. Sheets;67
8.4.4;d. Wooden ‘tablets’;69
8.5;Conclusion;70
9;Chapter 3. Page layout;72
9.1;1. Rolls;73
9.1.1;a. Column height, upper margin and lower margin;73
9.1.2;b. Column breadth and inter-columnar space;75
9.2;2. Codices;78
9.2.1;a. Column height, upper and lower margins;78
9.2.2;b. Column breadth, inner and outer margins;81
9.2.3;c. Inter-columnar space;85
9.3;3. Sheets;86
9.3.1;a. Column height, upper and lower margins;86
9.3.2;b. Column breadth, left and right margins;88
9.3.3;c. Column breadth and inter-columnar space;89
9.4;4. Wooden tablets;89
9.5;Conclusion;90
10;Chapter 4. Reading aids;92
10.1;1. Pagination;93
10.2;2. Titles and headings;96
10.3;3. Section markers;97
10.4;4. Sense lines and stichometric layout;99
10.5;5. Punctuation;101
10.6;6. Lectional signs;104
10.6.1;a. Diaeresis (trêma);104
10.6.2;b. Apostrophe;107
10.6.3;c. Breathings;109
10.6.4;d. Accents;110
10.7;Conclusion ;111
11;Chapter 5. Writing the text;113
11.1;1. Number of writers;113
11.2;2. Letter height, interlinear spacing and leading;115
11.3;3. Letters per line, even right margin and line-fillers;118
11.3.1;a. Letters per line;118
11.3.2;b. Even right margin and line-fillers;120
11.4;4. Lines per column;121
11.5;5. Critical signs and corrections;122
11.5.1;a. Critical signs;123
11.5.1.1;i. Anchor;123
11.5.1.2;ii. Asterisk;123
11.5.1.3;iii. Diplê;124
11.5.1.4;iv. Obelus;124
11.5.1.5;v. Signs with uncertain meaning;124
11.5.2;b. Corrections;125
11.5.2.1;i. Omission or correction indicated by a sign;126
11.5.2.2;ii. Deletion of text;126
11.5.2.3;iii. Insertion of text;127
11.6;6. Marginal notes;129
11.7;7. Decorations and illustrations;130
11.8;8. Linguistic features;134
11.8.1;a. Phonology and orthography;135
11.8.2;b. Morphology and selected syntactic features;137
11.9;9. Abbreviations;138
11.10;10. The Tetragrammaton;140
11.11;11. Nomina sacra;142
11.11.1;a. .e..;144
11.11.2;b. ......;145
11.11.3;c. ......;145
11.11.4;d. ....t..;146
11.11.5;e. p.e.µa;147
11.11.6;f. a....p..;148
11.11.7;g. pat..;148
11.11.8;h. ....;149
11.11.9;i. ...a..;149
11.11.10;j. ...a...;149
11.11.11;k. ..t..;150
11.11.12;l. da..d;150
11.11.13;m. µ.t..;151
11.11.14;n. .e....a..µ;151
11.11.15;o. .ta...., .ta....;151
11.11.16;p. Other abbreviations ;152
11.12;12. Stichometric counts;158
11.13;13. Accuracy of textual transmission;159
11.14;Conclusion;163
12;Chapter 6. Conclusion;165
12.1;1. Copyists and scribes;168
12.2;2. Copyists and faith;172
12.3;3. A new model;174
13;Catalogue of Papyri;176
14;Excluded papyri;432
15;Bibliography;435
16;Tables;466
17;Concordance;539
18;Index of Publications of Papyri;558
19;Index of Ancient Sources in Papyri;567
20;Index of Authors;575
21;Index of Subjects ;578

Über Autor(innen)

Mugridge, Alan
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.