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Researchers working with manuscripts of any vintage will be familiar with the frequent need to re-evaluate existing studies when undertaking major projects of analytical description and cataloguing, namely everything related to the so-called archaeology of manuscripts. In this volume, Brent Nongbri has embraced the challenge of revisiting collections of manuscripts which have been studied so frequently that certain information is often taken for granted. This is because researchers generally—and perhaps inevitably—use manuscripts for specific reasons related to all or even a part of the texts that they transmit, drawing on studies by other specialists, if they exist, for questions regarding these objects in their entirety as artefacts. The intriguing title, God’s Library, is supplemented by an explanatory subtitle outlining Nongbri’s intention to approach these resources as archaeological artefacts.
In this bold and groundbreaking book, Brent Nongbri provides an up-to-date introduction to the major collections of early Christian manuscripts and demonstrates that much of what we thought we knew about these books and fragments is mistaken. While biblical scholars have expended much effort in their study of the texts contained within the earliest Christian manuscripts, there has been a surprising lack of interest in thinking about these books as material objects with individual, unique histories. We have too often ignored the ways that the antiquities market obscures our knowledge of the origins of these manuscripts. Through painstaking archival research and detailed studies of the most important collections of early Christian manuscripts, Nongbri vividly shows that the earliest Christian books are more than just carriers of texts or samples of handwriting. They are three-dimensional archaeological artifacts with fascinating stories to tell, if we're willing to listen. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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