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Original Manuscripts and Their Significance for Studying Early Christianity -- Selected Essays
Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-90-04-16182-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 3, 274 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 690 g

Reihe: Texts and Editions for New Testament Study

This selection of essays with autobiographical introduction aims to demonstrate the value of working with the original manuscripts in detail in order to gain a more profound understanding of the many facets of Early Christianity, in particular the texts and background of the New Testament.

This book should persuade other scholars to once again take a look at the original manuscripts, whether it be a textual witness to the New Testament, some apocryphal text, a reference to early Christian life, or even a specific socio-historical feature of the life of the common people in the days of early Christianity.

The specific selection of essays has been chosen with this purpose in mind, presenting editions of papyri and first-hand information, and showing how to base even complex constructs of ideas on a studious treatment of manuscripts. The essays demonstrate the value of studying manuscripts for lexicography, painting a picture of a socio-historical background, and showing how to assess and evaluate data methodologically.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kraus, Thomas J

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein

Über Autor(innen)

Thomas J. Kraus (Ph.D., 2000, University of Ratisbona) worked as a Lecturer at the University of Ratisbona and is now a private scholar. He participated in several research projects as an active contributor. In 2004, he co-edited (with Tobias Nicklas) the Greek manuscripts of the Gospel of Peter and the Apocalypse of Peter for Griechische Christliche Schriftsteller (GCS). His current projects include Septuaginta Deutsch, Novum Testamentum Patristicum (NTP), Oxford Early Christian Gospel Texts (OECGT), and Death in Antiquity.