Van Seters' first aim is to unmask the unproved hypotheses that (consciously or unconsciously) underly our conceptions of the growth of the biblical books and the transmission of the biblical text. His arguments are based on a rigorous analysis of the ancient sources with regard to the production and transmission of literary documents, especially in Greece and Rome and early Christianity, as they relate to the composition and transmission of the "Hebrew Bible".Van Seters analyzes the practice of copying in ancient Greece and in the schools of Alexandria, Pergamum, and Rome in the Hellenistic and Roman periods. Second, Van Seters scrutinizes Classical and biblical scholarship from the Renaissance until the present time. The leit-motiv of the monograph is clearly formulated in the following quotation from p. 15: 'When biblical scholars began to imagine how the biblical texts first came into being, they used themselves as the models for the persons who brought these texts together.'
The Curious History of the "Editor" in Biblical Criticism
Van Seters' first aim is to unmask the unproved hypotheses that (consciously or unconsciously) underly our conceptions of the growth of the biblical books and the transmission of the biblical text. His arguments are based on a rigorous analysis of the ancient sources with regard to the production and transmission of literary documents, especially in Greece and Rome and early Christianity, as they relate to the composition and transmission of the "Hebrew Bible".Van Seters analyzes the practice of copying in ancient Greece and in the schools of Alexandria, Pergamum, and Rome in the Hellenistic and Roman periods. Second, Van Seters scrutinizes Classical and biblical scholarship from the Renaissance until the present time. The leit-motiv of the monograph is clearly formulated in the following quotation from p. 15: 'When biblical scholars began to imagine how the biblical texts first came into being, they used themselves as the models for the persons who brought these texts together.'
- ISBN:
- 9781575061122
- 9781575061122
- Category:
- Biblical studies & exegesis
- Format:
- Hardback
- Publication Date:
- 30-06-2006
- Publisher:
- Pennsylvania State University Press
- Country of origin:
- United States
- Pages:
- 448
- Dimensions (mm):
- 229x152x38mm
- Weight:
- 0.91kg
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