Building a Book of Books: Textual Characteristics of the Early Greek Majuscule Pandects

by Michael Dormandy

This book analyses how the early Greek whole-Bible manuscripts (pandects) change and preserve the text. Dormandy refutes the method based on singular readings and so investigates all the ways in which each pandect differs from the initial text, both changes introduced by its own scribe and by the scribes of earlier manuscripts. He surveys sample chapters in John, Romans, Revelation, Sirach and Judges (including discussing the "new finds" of Sinaiticus)...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3110994577
• ISBN13: 9783110994575
• Release Date: February 2024
• Publisher: de Gruyter
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary