RT Review
T1 The Edited Bible. The Curious History of the ‘Editor’ in Biblical Criticism. By John Van Seters
JF The journal of theological studies
VO 58
IS 2
SP 557
OP 559
A1 Morgan, Teresa
LA English
PB Oxford University Press
YR 2007
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1783721049
AB It is generally accepted, says Van Seters, that the Bible as we know it today is the product of many editors or redactors. The central argument of his book is that this assumption depends on an anachronistic understanding of what editors or redactors do. To make his case, Van Seters traces the history of editing from antiquity to the present day, in the historically related but recently divergent disciplines of classical and biblical scholarship., On the classical side, the history of Homeric scholarship makes an obvious focus for investigation. The earliest evidence of anything we can call editorial activity comes from the Alexandrian Museum. Alexandrian grammarians aimed to establish a ‘best text’ of Homer.
K1 Rezension
DO 10.1093/jts/flm030