Title: Snapshots of Evolving Traditions
Description: Eschewing the search for the hypothetical original, this volume of essays places manuscripts and manuscript culture center stage and provides new readings of texts from various Christian and Jewish traditions in their manuscript contexts. With emphasis on method, the book takes materiality and manuscript practices into consideration, arguing for the significance of realizing the inherent fluidity of textual transmission in a manuscript culture.
Subjects: Judaism: sacred texts, The Early Church, Ancient religions & mythologies, Judaism, Manuscripts, Textual Criticism, Transmission of texts, Apocryphal books (New Testament), Early Christian literature, Apocryphal books (Old Testament), Jewish literature, Bible, Nag Hammadi codices