The Problem of the Text of Acts

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ID19916965
AuthorsWinifred Strange (corresponding author), W A STRANGE
Year1992
Publication date1992-04-02
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueProblem of the Text of Acts (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9780511555107
OpenAlexW587660077
Open LibraryOL1539813M
ISBN9780511555107
LanguageEN
Citations received6

In the book of Acts, the so-called Western text departs from the alternative text in numerous points of detail. These divergences in the textual tradition of Acts have been the subject of renewed interest in recent years, with a notable concentration on Lucan traits in the Western text. The author of this study takes into account recent theories which have been proposed on the textual tradition of Acts, and puts forward an ingenious thesis (not considered hitherto) to explain the existence of two streams of textual tradition for the book. Analysis of a number of Western textual variants in Acts suggests that they may have arisen from the incorporation of marginal annotations into the text of Acts, but Lucan thought and language is indeed characteristic of these readings. Investigation of the non-Western textual tradition uncovers occasional signs of editing according to the interests of the second-century church. From this evidence Dr Strange proposes that Acts shared the fate of numerous other works of antiquity by being published posthumously; the work of two second-century editors is responsible for the remarkable divergence in the textual tradition of Acts

Art · Divergence (linguistics) · Epistemology · Linguistics · Literature · Subject (documents) · Biblical Studies and Interpretation · Byzantine Studies and History · Computer Science · Historical and Linguistic Studies · History · Philosophy

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