Pub Date : 2020-06-18DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198849056.003.0003
Garrick V. Allen
Although ubiquitous and informative, titles are not the only paratextual item that define Revelation’s manuscripts. An even more conspicuous force on the shape of Revelation’s interpretation and transmission is the commentary initially produced by the late sixth-/early seventh-century Archbishop of Cappadocian Caesarea, Andrew. This chapter maps the features of the late-antique Andrew of Caesarea commentary tradition, not only its explicit commentary, but also the prologue, kephalaia tables, epilogue, intertitles, and textual divisions. Different parts of the Andrew tradition appear in variegated ways in different manuscripts, but nearly half of all of Revelation’s Greek manuscripts maintain at least parts of the Andrew’s apparatus. Commentary manuscripts are a key part of the New Testament tradition that provide an array of information that informs reception-historical enquiry.
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Pub Date : 2020-06-18DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198849056.003.0002
Garrick V. Allen
This chapter comprehensively catalogues every form of the inscription and subscription title in every one of Revelation’s Greek manuscripts. The data reveals a surprising variety texts and designs for the titles, highlighting and emphasizing different aspects of Revelation’s text. The chapter engages and builds upon Gérard Genette’s theory on paratexts in modern French print culture and examines the relevance of his work for manuscript cultures. Titles have traditionally been viewed in scholarship as ‘misinformation’ because they conflict with the conclusions of modern scholarship, but this chapter argues that they help us to understand the ways that readers in specific contexts read the book of Revelation.
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Pub Date : 2020-06-18DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198849056.003.0001
Garrick V. Allen
Introducing the book, this chapter explores the place of manuscripts within New Testament scholarship, arguing that manuscripts are valuable for more than textual criticism because they reveal significant reception historical information. As concrete objects, they offer a view into the ways that works like the book of Revelation were read and transmitted in a given context. When we read manuscripts, we partake in a reading of the New Testament that is embodied and historically oriented towards previous generations of tradents and readers. Concretely, this chapter introduces the manuscripts of the book of Revelation, its textual traditions, and sets a course for the studies that follow, arguing for the end of the division between higher and lower criticism.
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Pub Date : 2020-06-18DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198849056.003.0005
Garrick V. Allen
This chapter explores the other literary works to which Revelation is juxtaposed in the codices that preserve it, focusing both on the macro-structural composition of these artefacts and the way that the different sub-corpora are treated in terms of their consistency, discontinuity, and paratextual emphasis. It analyses the larger bibliographic composition of the manuscripts that preserve copies of the book of Revelation, identifying two concurrent streams of Revelation’s transmission—the canonical and the eclectic. The internal variety within each of these streams is a reality that undermines conceptions of Revelation’s place as the ‘last book of the New Testament canon’ supported by the famous fourth and fifth century pandect manuscripts. Revelation’s transmission is defined in large part by the many non-biblical works transmitted alongside it.
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Pub Date : 2020-06-18DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198849056.003.0006
Garrick V. Allen
This final chapter summarizes the findings of the volume, arguing that New Testament scholars ought to re-engage the manuscript tradition in new ways, that paratexts are valuable sources of information for a bevy of critical questions, and that there is much work to be done in this area. The chapter muses on the significance of these studies for the future of the book of Revelation and thinks about the book of Revelation of the future. This chapter informs a number of pressing concerns and contributes to a larger discourse in the humanities about the nature and function of editions, changing technology and critical praxis, and the mediated nature of all literary enterprises. It concludes by exploring possible areas for future research and contemplating the shape and functionalities of future editions of the New Testament.
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