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New PDF release: Copying Early Christian Texts: A Study of Scribal Practice

By Alan Mugridge

ISBN-10: 3161546881

ISBN-13: 9783161546884

it's generally believed that the early Christians copied their texts themselves with out a good deal of craftsmanship, and that a few copyists brought alterations to aid their theological ideals. during this quantity, besides the fact that, Alan Mugridge examines all the extant Greek papyri bearing Christian literature as much as the tip of the 4th century, in addition to numerous comparative teams of papyri, and concludes that, generally, Christian texts, like such a lot literary texts within the Roman global, have been copied via educated scribes. specialist Christian scribes most likely turned extra universal after the time of Constantine, yet this research means that within the early centuries the copyists of Christian texts in Greek have been mostly knowledgeable scribes, Christian or no longer, who reproduced these texts as a part of their alternate and, whereas they made blunders, copied them as properly as the other texts they have been referred to as upon to copy.

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