Early Christian manuscripts : examples of applied method and approach / / edited by Thomas J. Kraus & Tobias Nicklas.

• TeilnehmendeR: Kraus, Thomas J., 1965-; Nicklas, Tobias, 1967-
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Texts and editions for New Testament study, v. 5; Texts and Editions for New Testament Study 5.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (264 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

For the reconstruction of early Christianity, the lives of early Christians, their world of ideas, their ways of living, and their literature. Early Christian manuscripts - documents and literary texts - are pivotal archaeological artefacts. However, the manuscripts often came to us in fragmentary conditions, incomplete or with gaps and missing lines. Others appear to form a corpus, belong to an archive, or are connected with each other as far as theme or purpose are concerned. The present collection comprises of nine essays about individual or a set of certain manuscripts. With their essays the authors aim to present special approaches to early Christian manuscripts and, consequently, demonstrate methodically how to deal with them. The scope of topics ranges from the reconstruction of fragmentary manuscripts to the significance of amulets and from the discussion of individual fragments to the handling of the known manuscripts of a specific Christian text or a whole archive of papyri.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Chapter One Reconstructing Fragmentary Manuscripts—Chances and Limitations / Thomas J. Kraus -- Chapter Two Hunting for Origen in Unidentified Papyri: The Case of P.Egerton 2 (= inv. 3) / Rachel Yuen-Collingridge -- Chapter Three Papyrus Oxyrhynchus X 1224 / Paul Foster -- Chapter Four Is P.Oxy. XLII 3057 the Earliest Christian Letter? / Lincoln H. Blumell -- Chapter Five 𝔓50 (P.Yale I 3) and the Question of its Function / John Granger Cook -- Chapter Six The Reuse of Christian Texts: P.Macquarie inv. 360 + P.Mil.Vogl.inv. 1224 (𝔓91) and P.Oxy. X 1229 (𝔓23) / Don Barker -- Chapter Seven Papyri, Parchments, Ostraca, and Tablets Written with Biblical Texts in Greek and Used as Amulets: A Preliminary List / Theodore de Bruyn -- Chapter Eight The Egyptian Hermas: The Shepherd in Egypt before Constantine / Malcolm Choat and Rachel Yuen-Collingridge -- Chapter Nine The Babatha Archive, the Egyptian Papyri and their Implications for Study of the Greek New Testament / Stanley E. Porter -- Index.