Canonizing Paul

Ancient Editorial Practice and the Corpus Paulinum

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ID20020995
AuthorsEric W Scherbenske (corresponding author)
Year2013
Pages383
Publication date2013-01-17
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueCanonizing Paul (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199917341.001.0001
OpenAlexW4241246592
Open LibraryOL25355450M
ISBN9780199917341
LanguageEN
Citations received25

Canonizing Paul explores how ancient editorial practices utilized in the production of corpora (e.g. preparation of texts, selection and arrangement of tracts, and composition and deployment of paratexts) were employed to shape not only editions of Paul's letters (i.e. the Marcionite, Euthalian, and Vulgate) but also their interpretation. Investigation into the Marcionite edition shows how its paratexts introduced Marcion's hermeneutic and, in some measure, justified his editorial principles. The Euthalian edition pursued instead a catechetical and pedagogical goal extending from the deployment of paratexts to the organization of the tracts and a textual arrangement for ease of comprehension. The exploration of text and, sometimes disparate, paratexts culminates in an investigation of Codex Fuldensis, which transmits Rufinus of Syria's Vulgate textual revision of Paul's letters and its Primum Quaeritur prologue alongside numerous other paratexts, among them the Marcionite prologues, Old Latin capitula, and capitula drawn from the Euthalian edition. The incorporation of such diverse paratexts, loosed from their original editions and juxtaposed with later editorial products founded on alternative hermeneutical presuppositions, resulted in interpretive tensions that testify to the physical manuscript as a locus of authority over which many early Christians were trying to gain interpretive control, if not by altering the text, then by furnishing paratexts. Demonstrating how these practices and interpretive concerns left their mark on these editions of the Corpus Paulinum reveals that editorial practices and hermeneutics were deeply, sometimes inextricably, intertwined

Art · Epistemology · Hermeneutics · Interpretation (philosophy) · Linguistics · Literature · Presupposition · Prologue · Biblical Studies and Interpretation · Historical and Linguistic Studies · Philosophy · Theology and Canon Law Studies · Bible · Bible, commentaries, n. t. epistles of paul · Bible, criticism, textual, n. t · Canon · Textgeschichte · Textual Criticism

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