New Testament Textual Criticism is dead! Long live New Testament Textual Criticism!

Botha, J. Eugene

doi:10.4102/hts.v63i2.227

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“…This "autograph" copy functioned like a first printing from a press, except that, in antiquity, the text became "corrupted" in the course of being copied by hand. Text critics work from numerous later extant copies to attempt to reconstruct the text of the original manuscript (now lost), which in turn serves as the basis for our narrative analysis (for a critique of this approach, see Parker 1997 andBotha 2007).…”

Section: Single Author >>Fixed Text>>silent Reader Alone and In Privatementioning

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From Narrative in Print to Narrative in Performance

Rhoads

2018

OHJSA

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This article examines the paradigm shift from analysing the biblical narratives in a modern print medium to the exploration of biblical narratives as witnesses to oral performances in an ancient oral/aural medium. Our modern print medium assumes a single author writing a fixed text to be read in private and in silence by individual readers. The ancient Mediterranean media world presumes the ethos of a predominantly oral culture, a strong role for memory, the activity of scribes writing on scrolls, and performances to communal audiences. All these factors work to shape communal identity. The article then offers examples from the Gospel of Mark of various features of an oral performance, how oral performances may have generated a rhetorical impact, and how we might use insights from such studies to reinterpret Mark in an oral ethos.

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Section: Single Author >>Fixed Text>>silent Reader Alone and In Privatementioning

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From Narrative in Print to Narrative in Performance

Rhoads

2018

OHJSA

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“…Long Live New Testament Textual Criticism!' 21 In what respect is textual criticism dead? In its traditional goal and in the increasing complexity of its methods.…”

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Why Does New Testament Textual Criticism Matter? Refined Definitions and Fresh Directions

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2014

The Expository Times

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New Testament textual criticism often has been dismissed as an esoteric scholarly discipline that is best avoided by clergy, students-even scholars-and better left to experts. The complexities involved in fulfilling textual criticism's first goal-identifying the earliest attainable text in each set of variant readings-can be demystified, however, (1) by facing and understanding those complexities and (2) by testing and illustrating the methods employed. Furthermore, a refined definition of the goal opens the way for correcting the long-standing neglect of rejected variant readings and for emphasising the enrichment afforded by recovering the stories that these readings have to tell about real life-issues in the early church, namely, multiple interpretations of theological questions (such as Christology) and of ethical, liturgical, and social practices (such as divorce and remarriage). The results offer fresh and fascinating glimpses of the dynamism in early Christianity.

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New Testament Textual Criticism is dead! Long live New Testament Textual Criticism!

Cited by 2 publications

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From Narrative in Print to Narrative in Performance

From Narrative in Print to Narrative in Performance

Why Does New Testament Textual Criticism Matter? Refined Definitions and Fresh Directions

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