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Scholars of early Christian and Jewish literature have for many
years focused on interpreting texts in their hypothetical original
forms and contexts, while largely overlooking important aspects of
the surviving manuscript evidence and the culture that produced it.
This volume of essays seeks to remedy this situation by focusing on
the material aspects of the manuscripts themselves and the fluidity
of textual transmission in a manuscript culture. With an emphasis
on method and looking at texts as they have been used and
transmitted in manuscripts, this book discusses how we may deal
with textual evidence that can often be described as mere snapshots
of fluid textual traditions that have been intentionally adapted to
fit ever-shifting contexts. The emphasis of the book is on the
contexts and interests of users and producers of texts as they
appear in our surviving manuscripts, rather than on original
authors and their intentions, and the essays provide both important
correctives to former textual interpretations, as well as new
insights into the societies and individuals that copied and read
the texts in the manuscripts that have actually been preserved to
us.
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