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For centuries, biblical prologues served as gateways to the themes and problems of the Latin Bible. The present study of the overlooked Benedictine Prologue illuminates textual influences, intellec...
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For centuries, biblical prologues served as gateways to the themes and problems of the Latin Bible. The present study of the overlooked Benedictine Prologue illuminates textual influences, intellectual exchange, and doctrinal confrontations as they unfolded at the time of the appearance of the Vulgate Bible.
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Price: £79.30
Pages: 198
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Imprint: Mohr Siebeck
Series: Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum / Studies and Texts in Antiquity and Christianity
Publication Date: 08 December 2023
ISBN: 9783161625503
Format: Paperback
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RELIGION / Christian Church / History, Religious institutions and organizations, New Testaments, Theology

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Thompson, Jeremy C.: Kein Text fuer Biografie gespeichert.; Rothschild, Clare K.: Born 1964; 1986 B.A. University of California, Berkeley; 1992 M.T.S. Harvard University; 2003 PhD University of Chicago; currently Professor of Scripture at Lewis University.
1 Introduction
1.1 Introducing the Corpus Paulinum: A Historical Sketch of the Earliest Latin Prologues

Part I. Text and Manuscripts
2 The Montecassino Codices

Figure 1: Montecassino, Archivio dell'Abbazia, 552, p. 56. The Benedictine Prologue - 2.1 Historiography on the Benedictine Prologue: Harnack, Batiffol, Amelli, Brown - 2.2 The Codicological History of the Montecassino Bible Group

3 A New Witness: Codicology and Context of the Manfred Bible
Figure 2: Vatican, B.A.V., Vat. lat. 36, fol. 522v. Dedication scene - 3.1 Related Bibles in the Manfred and Conradin Groups - 3.2 The Creation of the Manfred Bible - 3.3 Codexin Comparison with the Montecassino Codices

4 A New Collation of the Benedictine Prologue
Figure 3: Vatican, B.A.V., Vat. lat. 36, fol. 442r. The Benedictine Prologue - Figure 4: Vatican, B.A.V., Vat. lat. 36, fol. 442v. The Benedictine Prologue - 4.1 Text - 4.2 Translation - 4.3 Variants in the Five Witnesses to the Benedictine Prologue: Preliminary Remarks - 4.4 Variants in BP II in Relation to its Parallel Transmission in S 651/659 - 4.5 Variants in BP I-VI across the Prologue's Codices - 4.6 Summary

5 The Benedictine Prologue and the Muratorian Fragment: Texts Compared
Figure 5: Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, I 101 sup., fol. 10v. The Muratorian Fragment - Figure 6: Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, I 101 sup., fol. 11r. The Muratorian Fragment - 5.1 Variants in BP I and III-V Compared to the Muratorian Fragment as Preserved by - 5.2 Critical Principles for Evaluating Variants

Part II. Sources and Implications

6 Heber, Abraham, and the Hebrew of the Hebrews: BP VI

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Omnis textus uel numerus epistolarum: S 651 §3 and BP II
Figure 7: Vatican, B.A.V., Vat. lat. 36, fol. 435v. Prologue S 651 - Figure 8: Vatican, B.A.V., Vat. lat. 36, fol. 436r. Prologue S 651 - 7.1 The Content, Language, and Themes of S 651 §3 - 7.2 The Manuscript Transmission of S 651 §3

8 Prologue S 659

9 Latin Euthaliana I: S 651 §3

10 Latin Euthaliana II: S 651 §1
10.1 The Strife between Jews and Gentiles in Euthalian and Latin Traditions - 10.2 Concluding Remarks on the Presence of Euthaliana in S 651

11 Conclusion