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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Главный автор: Troxel, Ronald L. (Автор)
Формат: Электронный ресурс Статья
Язык:Английский
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Опубликовано: Brill 2016
В: Vetus Testamentum
Год: 2016, Том: 66, Выпуск: 4, Страницы: 603-626
Нормированные ключевые слова (последовательности):B Bibel. Altes Testament / Текстовая критика / Текст
Индексация IxTheo:HB Ветхий Завет
Другие ключевые слова:B Textual Criticism text nomenclature critical editions
Online-ссылка: Volltext (Verlag)
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Итог: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.
ISSN:1568-5330
Второстепенные работы:In: Vetus Testamentum
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/15685330-12341249