Sixth Ezra : the text and origin /
6 Ezra is a short, oracular writing that is included in the biblical Apocrypha as the final two chapters (chapters 15-16) of 4 Ezra or 2 Esdras. Cast as the words of God mediated through an unnamed prophet, the main part of the work sets forth predictions of impending doom for the world. It is remin...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1998.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Introduction and summary of results
- Transmission History
- History of Scholarship
- Goals and Conclusions of the Present Study
- Text and Recensional Relationship
- The Religious Affiliation of the Author
- Date of Composition
- Original Language
- Provenance
- Sitz im Leben
- Eschatology
- 2. Evidence for the text of 6 Ezra
- Primary Evidence: The Manuscripts
- Description of the Significant Manuscripts
- Conclusion to the Discussion of the Manuscripts
- Secondary Evidence: Quotations and an Epitome
- Gildas's "De excidio Britanniae" (ca. 540)
- The Mozarabic Liturgy (Date Uncertain)
- The Roman Liturgy (Date Uncertain)
- The Epitome of 6 Ezra in the León Manuscript (Twelfth Century)
- 3. Reconstructing the two recensions
- The Readings of the Latin Manuscripts
- Sangermanensis (S)
- Ambianensis (A)
- Complutensis 1 (C)
- Mazarinaeus (M)
- Bruxellensis (N)
- Epternacensis (E)
- Abulensis (V)
- Legionensis 2 (L)
- The Lost Exemplar of 15:59 ... 16:31 in Manuscript S
- The Latin Manuscript Groups and Hyparchetypes
- Text r (Common Ancestor of V and L)
- Text q (Common Ancestor of C and r)
- Text p (Common Ancestor of M, N, and E)
- Text t (Common Ancestor of S and A; Hyparchetype of the French Family)
- Text u (Common Ancestor of p and q; Hyparchetype of the Spanish family)
- The Relationship between the Oxyrhynchus Greek Fragment and the Latin Recensions
- Secondary Witnesses to the Text: Quotations and the Epitome in Manuscript L
- Gildas's "De excidio Britanniae"
- The Mozarabic Liturgy
- The Roman Liturgy
- The Epitome of 6 Ezra in the León Manuscript
- Conclusion
- 4. The relationship between the two recensions
- Methodological Considerations
- Analysis of the Differences between the Recensions
- Grammatical and Stylistic Features
- Synonymous Lexical Variants
- Differences in Meaning, Including Theological Factors and Apparent Corruptions
- Quantitative Differences (Additions and Deletions)
- Conclusions
- Additional Considerations
- 5. Vocabulary
- The Vocabulary of the Earliest Recoverable (French) Text of 6 Ezra
- The Vocabulary of the Secondary (Spanish) Recension of 6 Ezra
- 6. The religious affiliation of the author
- 7. Date
- Appendixes
- 1. The Text of 6 Ezra: Parallel Alignment of the French and Spanish Recensions, with All Textual Witnesses
- 2. 6 Ezra: An Eclectic Latin Text
- 3. 6 Ezra: Translation
- 4. Textual Relationships between the Manuscripts of 4, 5, and 6 Ezra
- 5. Index of Words in Latin Witnesses to the Text of 6 Ezra
- 6. Index of Greek Words in Oxyrhynchus Fragment 1010
- Index of passages
- Index of names and terms.