Despite the significant work carried out on the text, transmission,
materiality, and scribal habits preserved in the Chester Beatty Biblical
Papyri since their acquisition by Beatty ninety years ago in 1931,
these early copies of Jewish scripture and the New Testament have, for
the most part, belonged primarily to textual critics. The goal of this
book is to resituate this important collection of manuscripts in broader
contexts, examining their significance in conversation with papyrology
as a discipline, in the context of other ancient literary traditions
preserved on papyri, and in discussion with the intellectual and
cultural history of collecting, colonialism, and scholarly rhetoric. The
Chester Beatty Biblical Papyri, and other papyrological collection with
which they are inextricably bound, remind us of the critical value of
examining old manuscripts afresh in their historical, scholarly, and
intellectual contexts. These studies are relevant for all scholars who
work with manuscripts and ancient texts of any variety.
Language:
English
Publisher:De Gruyter
Copyright year:2023
Audience:Scholars of the New Testament, Septuagint, history, ethics, colonialism, philology, cultural history
The AWOL Index: The bibliographic data presented herein has been programmatically extracted from the content of AWOL - The Ancient World Online (ISSN 2156-2253) and formatted in accordance with a structured data model.
AWOL is a project of Charles E. Jones, Tombros Librarian for Classics and Humanities at the Pattee Library, Penn State University
AWOL began with a series of entries under the heading AWOL on the Ancient World Bloggers Group Blog. I moved it to its own space here beginning in 2009.
The primary focus of the project is notice and comment on open access material relating to the ancient world, but I will also include other kinds of networked information as it comes available.
The ancient world is conceived here as it is at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University, my academic home at the time AWOL was launched. That is, from the Pillars of Hercules to the Pacific, from the beginnings of human habitation to the late antique / early Islamic period.
AWOL is the successor to Abzu, a guide to networked open access data relevant to the study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East and the Ancient Mediterranean world, founded at the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago in 1994. Together they represent the longest sustained effort to map the development of open digital scholarship in any discipline.
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