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Christian literature, Early --- Criticism, Textual --- Early Christian literature --- Patristic literature --- Christian literature, Early - Criticism, Textual - Congresses.

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This book examines the textual emendations to patristic writings to showcase the theological preoccupations of early Christian teachings. The debate around the formation of a unified church produced several key texts in the history of Christianity, and they are discussed in these scholarly essays. These seventeen chapters examine a shift in textual interpretations, notice a change in literary genre, and also identify ancient editing techniques. Two essays actually show an intentional change in a text to make it palatable to a different audience.

Christian literature, Early -- Criticism, Textual -- Case studies. --- Christian literature, Early -- History and criticism -- Case studies. --- Christian literature, Early --- Languages & Literatures --- Greek & Latin Languages & Literatures --- Early Christian literature --- Patristic literature --- Criticism, Textual --- History and criticism

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From Eusebius of Caesarea, who first compiled a collection of martyr narratives around 300, to Thierry Ruinart, whose Acta primorum martyrum sincera et selecta was published in 1689, the selection and study of early hagiographic narratives has been founded on an assumption that there existed documents written at the time of martyrdom, or very close to it. As a result, a search for authenticity has been and continues to be central, even in the context of today's secular scholarship. But, as Éric Rebillard contends, the alternative approach, to set aside entirely the question of the historical reliability of martyr narratives, is not satisfactory either. Instead, he argues that martyr narratives should be consider as fluid "living texts," written anonymously and received by audiences not as precise historical reports but as versions of the story. In other words, the form these texts took, between fact and fiction, made it possible for audiences to readily accept the historicity of the martyr while at the same time not expect to hear or read a truthful account.In The Early Martyr Narratives, Rebillard considers only accounts of Christian martyrs supposed to have been executed before 260, and only those whose existence is attested in sources that can be dated to before 300. The resulting small corpus contains no texts in the form of legal protocols, traditionally viewed as the earliest, most official and authentic records, nor does it include any that can be dated to a period during which persecution of Christians is known to have taken place. Rather than deduce from this that they are forgeries written for the sake of polemic or apologetic, Rebillard demonstrates how the literariness of the narratives creates a fictional complicity that challenges and complicates any claims of these narratives to be truthful.

Martyrologies --- Christian martyrs --- Christian literature, Early --- History and criticism. --- Biography --- Early works to 1800 --- Criticism, Textual. --- Christian literature, Early. --- Martyrologies. --- RELIGION / Christian Church / History. --- History and criticism --- Early Christian literature --- Patristic literature --- Martyrs --- Martyrdom --- Necrologies --- Christianity --- Religion. --- Religious Studies. --- Criticism, Textual --- Martyrologies - History and criticism --- Christian martyrs - Biography - Early works to 1800 --- Christian literature, Early - Criticism, Textual. --- Acta martyrum

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Scholars of early Christian and Jewish literature have for many years focused on interpreting texts in their hypothetical original forms and contexts, while largely overlooking important aspects of the surviving manuscript evidence and the culture that produced it. This volume of essays seeks to remedy this situation by focusing on the material aspects of the manuscripts themselves and the fluidity of textual transmission in a manuscript culture. With an emphasis on method and looking at texts as they have been used and transmitted in manuscripts, this book discusses how we may deal with textual evidence that can often be described as mere snapshots of fluid textual traditions that have been intentionally adapted to fit ever-shifting contexts. The emphasis of the book is on the contexts and interests of users and producers of texts as they appear in our surviving manuscripts, rather than on original authors and their intentions, and the essays provide both important correctives to former textual interpretations, as well as new insights into the societies and individuals that copied and read the texts in the manuscripts that have actually been preserved to us.

091:2 --- 273.1*35 --- 273.1*35 Gnosis: Koptische bronnen: Nag Hammadi Codex Jung Evangelium veritatis --- Gnosis: Koptische bronnen: Nag Hammadi Codex Jung Evangelium veritatis --- 091:2 Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi-:-Godsdienst. Theologie --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi-:-Godsdienst. Theologie --- 273.1*35 Gnosis: Koptische bronnen: Nag Hammadi; Codex Jung; Evangelium veritatis --- Gnosis: Koptische bronnen: Nag Hammadi; Codex Jung; Evangelium veritatis --- Apocryphal books (New Testament) --- Christian literature, Early --- Apocryphal books (Old Testament) --- Jewish literature --- Transmission of texts --- Manuscripts --- Criticism, Textual --- Bible. --- Jews --- Transmission of texts. --- Literary transmission --- Manuscript transmission --- Textual transmission --- Editions --- History. --- Apocrypha --- Criticism, Textual. --- Apocryphal books (New Testament) - Manuscripts --- Christian literature, Early - Manuscripts --- Christian literature, Early - Criticism, Textual --- Apocryphal books (Old Testament) - Manuscripts --- Jewish literature - Manuscripts --- Jewish literature - Criticism, Textual --- Transmission des textes --- Littérature chrétienne primitive. --- Manuscrits. --- Manuscrits hébreux. --- Méthodologie. --- New Philology. --- exegesis. --- manuscript culture. --- textual fluidity.