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The authority of canonical texts, especially of the Bible, is often described in static definitions. However, the authority of these texts was acquired as well as exercised in a dynamic process of transmission and reception. This book analyzes selected aspects of this historical process. Attention is paid to biblical master-texts and to other texts related to the “biblical worlds” in various historical periods and contexts. The studies examine particular texts, textual variants, translations, paraphrases and other elements in the process of textual transmission. The range covered spans from the Iron Age, through the Old Testament texts, their manuscripts and other texts from Qumran, the Septuagint, down to the New Testament, Apocrypha, Coptic texts, Patristics, and even modern translations of the Bible. The book is particularly intended for those interested in the history of reception and transmission of biblical texts and in the textual criticism.

Transmission of texts. --- Literary transmission --- Manuscript transmission --- Textual transmission --- Criticism, Textual --- Editions --- Manuscripts --- Bible --- Evidences, authority, etc. --- Criticism, Textual. --- Bible. --- authority of the Bible. --- textual criticism. --- textual transmission.

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This book aims at illustrating the nuances of the concepts of omission, selection, and loss in Ancient and Medieval literature and history. It explores devices and criteria of selection of texts and their subsequent fragmentation, but it also addresses the questions of the damnatio memoriae, of literary strategies such as reticence and omission, as well as of known texts deemed lost but re-found thanks to state-of-the-art methods in digitization.

LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical. --- Historical and literary memory. --- Lost texts. --- Textual transmission. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical

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Composite and multiple-text manuscripts are traditionally studied for their individual texts, but recent trends in codicology have paved the way for a more comprehensive approach: Manuscripts are unique artefacts which reveal how they were produced and used as physical objects. While multiple-text manuscripts codicologically are to be considered as production units, i.e. they were originally planned and realized in order to carry more than one text, composites consist of formerly independent codicological units and were put together at a later stage with intentions that might be completely different from those of its original parts. Both sub-types of manuscripts are still sometimes called "miscellanies", a term relating to the texts only. The codicological difference is important for reconstructing why and how these manuscripts which in many cases resemble (or contain) a small library were produced and used. Contributions on the manuscript cultures of China, India, Africa, the Islamic world and European traditions lead not only to the conclusion that "one-volume libraries" have been produced in many manuscript cultures, but allow also for the identification of certain types of uses.

Manuscripts --- Transmission of texts --- History. --- Literary transmission --- Manuscript transmission --- Textual transmission --- Criticism, Textual --- Editions --- Production and use of manuscripts. --- manuscripts as artefacts, cross-cultural manuscriptology.

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Scholars of the Middle Ages are familiar with the notion of text as an inscribed document, whether that inscription occurs upon stone, metal, vellum or textiles, but the concept of inscription and, therefore, of text, can be extended to cover a range of e

Transmission of texts --- Manuscripts, Medieval --- Literature, Medieval --- European literature --- Medieval literature --- Medieval manuscripts --- Manuscripts --- Literary transmission --- Manuscript transmission --- Textual transmission --- Criticism, Textual --- Editions --- History --- History and criticism --- Translations

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The notion of what it means to distort" a text is here explored through a rich variety of individual case studies."

Criticism, Textual. --- Textual criticism --- Editing --- Transmission of texts. --- Literary transmission --- Manuscript transmission --- Textual transmission --- Criticism, Textual --- Editions --- Manuscripts --- Epic poetry, Greek Criticism, Textual