What is the ‘Text’ in Textual Criticism?
Textual criticism has long used terms and phrases incorporating ‘text’ without scrutinizing whether they are defensible. Contributing to this problem has been imprecision in the definition of ‘text’ itself. Contemporary scholarship has nibbled at the edges of a definition, but no focused considerati...
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| Tipo di documento: | Elettronico Articolo |
| Lingua: | Inglese |
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Brill
2016
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| In: |
Vetus Testamentum
Anno: 2016, Volume: 66, Fascicolo: 4, Pagine: 603-626 |
| (sequenze di) soggetti normati: | B
Bibel. Altes Testament
/ Critica testuale
/ Testo
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| Notazioni IxTheo: | HB Antico Testamento |
| Altre parole chiave: | B
Textual Criticism
text
nomenclature
critical editions
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| Accesso online: |
Volltext (Verlag) |
| Riepilogo: | Textual criticism has long used terms and phrases incorporating ‘text’ without scrutinizing whether they are defensible. Contributing to this problem has been imprecision in the definition of ‘text’ itself. Contemporary scholarship has nibbled at the edges of a definition, but no focused consideration has been given to pinpointing what it is textual criticism criticizes. This essay examines the concepts underlying talk of ‘text’, positing that ‘text’ must be defined within a matrix with author and reader. A text’s production and preservation reflects its reading communities’ conferral upon it of the status of ‘text’. Although establishment of the earliest recoverable form(s) of a text remains important, that must be paired with understanding a text’s role in shaping and reflecting the lives of its reading communities. Careful definition of ‘text’ and the nomenclature that describes it can bring clarity to conceiving the task of textual criticism. |
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| ISSN: | 1568-5330 |
| Comprende: | In: Vetus Testamentum
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15685330-12341249 |