History of the Pauline Corpus in Texts, Transmissions and Trajectories: A Textual Analysis of Manuscripts from the Second to the Fifth Century [Kõva köide]

"In History of the Pauline Corpus in Texts, Transmissions, and Trajectories , Chris S. Stevens examines the Greek manuscripts of the Pauline texts from P46 to Claromontanus. Previous research is often hindered by the lack of a systematic analysis and an indelicate linguistic methodology. This book offers an entirely new analysis of the early life of the Pauline corpus. Departing from traditional approaches, this text-critical work is the first to use Systemic Functional Linguistics, which enables both the comparison and ranking of textual differences across multiple manuscripts. Furthermore, the analysis is synchronically oriented, so it is non-evaluative. The results indicate a highly uniform textual transmission during the early centuries. The systematic analysis challenges previous research regarding text types, Christological scribal alterations, and textual trajectories"--

Bypassing the traditional focus on finding an original source text, Stevens analyzes the transmission of the Pauline corpus through all the known Greek manuscripts within the limited time period from the second century to the fifth, freeing him from accounting for changes before or after. His topics include contemporary textual criticism for New Testament studies, a method for the direct evaluation of textual uniformity, exploring and weighing textual features, and narrative textual criticism: textual variation used for sociohistorical narratives. Annotation ©2020 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

In History of the Pauline Corpus in Texts, Transmissions, and Trajectories, Chris S. Stevens uses Systemic Functional Linguistics to offer an entirely new analysis of the early life of the Pauline corpus with regard to text types, Christological scribal alterations, and textual trajectories.