Earth Accuses Earth: Tracing What Jesus Wrote on the Ground

Knust, Jennifer Wright; Wasserman, Tommy

doi:10.1017/s0017816010000799

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“…See Parker 1997;Epp 2007a: 275-308;2007b: 77-117, 395-99;2007c: 315-31;2011a: 79-127;2011b: 79-105;2013a: 1-39;2013b: 519-77;2014a: 417-31;2014b: 35-70;2014c: 271-88;Knust 2005: 59-84;2006: 485-536;2008: 1-15;Knust and Wasserman 2010: 407-46. See also the forthcoming book by Knust and Wasserman;Luijendijk 2009;Lin 2016. definitive -a singular text to which we cannot return but to which many wish we could. 50 In the abstract, I am not opposed to the use of the term 'initial text', provided in one's use of the term it does not also import anachronistic ideas of bookish finality and containment with it -even if at some now lost point in the past.…”

Section: Implications For Early Christian Texts and New Testament Texmentioning

confidence: 99%

Accidental Publication, Unfinished Texts and the Traditional Goals of New Testament Textual Criticism

Larsen

2017

Journal for the Study of the New Testament

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Notions of ‘authorship’, ‘publication’ and ‘ﬁnal text’ are often mentioned in traditional textual criticism, but less frequently discussed in detail. The projects of source and redaction criticism end and textual criticism begins based on when scholars imagine a text was ﬁnished. Yet modern notions of publication, textuality and authorship, which are largely shaped by the printing press, are often anachronistically applied to the ancient world. Exploring evidence from Plato to 4 Ezra to Tertullian and Augustine, I take up the question of when a text was considered ‘ﬁnal’ by reconsidering what counted as publication in the ancient world. Once the assumption of textual ﬁnalization is set aside, the tools traditionally associated with textual, source and redaction criticism become unhelpful. While textual critics have noted the practical impossibilities of arriving at the ‘original text’, I demonstrate the conceptual roadblocks to imagining an ‘original’ and ‘ﬁnal’ text in the ancient world.

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Section: Implications For Early Christian Texts and New Testament Texmentioning

confidence: 99%

Accidental Publication, Unfinished Texts and the Traditional Goals of New Testament Textual Criticism

Larsen

2017

Journal for the Study of the New Testament

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“…11.Solid work has been done by Klindienst (1992), Bart Ehrman (1988), Chris Keith (2008Keith ( , 2009Keith ( , 2013, Jennifer Knust (2005Knust ( , 2006, Knust and Wasserman (2010), John David Punch (2010) and Wieland Willker (2014), to name but a few. They all provide extensive bibliographies for interested readers.…”

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Changing things around: Dramatic aspect in the <i>Pericope Adulterae</i> (Jn 7:53–8:11)

Staden

2015

HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies

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In this article the transactional model of narrative as expounded by Louise Rosenblatt, supported by an analysis in terms of dramatic aspect, is employed to show how the interpolated scene in John 7:53–8:11 (known as the Pericope Adulterae and hereafter referred to as PA) functions as a pivot of power in the gospel. The content of the scene, as well as its placement within the gospel, serves to promote an aesthetic reading that focusses attention on the experience during the reading event. Awareness of sensations, images, feelings and ideas from past experiences, as well as the sounds and rhythms of the words become important. The reader responds to the aesthetic transaction, the various elements of total experience, rather than simply to the text, during and after the reading event.

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“…However, the question that most tormented interpreters is: "what does he write?" ¹ In this paper of mine I shall ponder this question in three steps: first, I shall dwell on those interpretations that read the passage with reference to some prac- For a recent survey, see Knust and Wasserman (2010). tices of writing / non-writing in the Semitic world.…”

Section: Introduction: a Mysterious Scribblingmentioning

confidence: 99%