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
• Edition: 1st ed.
• 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.
• Other title: Preliminary Material --; Chapter One Reconstructing Fragmentary Manuscripts—Chances and Limitations /; Chapter Two Hunting for Origen in Unidentified Papyri: The Case of P.Egerton 2 (= inv. 3) /; Chapter Three Papyrus Oxyrhynchus X 1224 /; Chapter Four Is P.Oxy. XLII 3057 the Earliest Christian Letter? /; Chapter Five 𝔓50 (P.Yale I 3) and the Question of its Function /; Chapter Six The Reuse of Christian Texts: P.Macquarie inv. 360 + P.Mil.Vogl.inv. 1224 (𝔓91) and P.Oxy. X 1229 (𝔓23) /; Chapter Seven Papyri, Parchments, Ostraca, and Tablets Written with Biblical Texts in Greek and Used as Amulets: A Preliminary List /; Chapter Eight The Egyptian Hermas: The Shepherd in Egypt before Constantine /; Chapter Nine The Babatha Archive, the Egyptian Papyri and their Implications for Study of the Greek New Testament /; Index.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• ISBN: 1283851938; 9004194347
• ISSN: 1574-7085
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Thomas J. Kraus & Tobias Nicklas.

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.