Gospels before the book / Matthew D.C. Larsen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Larsen, Matthew D. C., 1982- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible. Mark--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bible.

Bible. Mark.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xv, 227 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]

Contents:

1 Reading Gospels "before the Book" p. 1

2 Unfinished and Less Authored Texts p. 11

Cicero, Caesar, and Hirtius p. 12

Pliny the Younger and the Curious Case of the Exorbitantly Expensive Commentarii p. 17

Plaro and Hypomnemata as Memory Aids and Working Texts p. 19

Philo on Hypomnemata and Their Potential Problems p. 23

Plutarch's Creation and Use of Hypomnemata p. 26

Galen's Unfinished Texts p. 29

Damis's Hypomnemata as a Scrapbook of Textual Raw Material p. 34

3 Accidental Publication and Postpublication Revision p. 37

Cicero's Wound, Textual Healing, and Pseudepigraphical Pseudepigraphy p. 38

Diodorus Siculus on How to Handle Accidental Publication p. 41

Horace and Examples of Accidental Publication in the Ancient Roman Imagination p. 43

The Idea of Accidental Publication as Asset: 4 Ezra p. 45

Arrian as Writer but Not Author p. 47

Cicero and the Inability to Control One's Own Manuscript Tradition p. 50

Josephus on Pre-Writing, Rewriting, and Postpublication Revision p. 52

4 Multiple Authorized Versions of the Same Work p. 59

Versions of the Community Rule as Memory Aids for Instructors p. 59

The Herculaneum Library and the "Working Desk" of Philodemus p. 69

Comparing the Scrolls in Qumran and Herculaneum p. 72

5 The Earliest Readers of the Gospel according to Mark p. 79

The Gospel according to Luke on the Gospel according to Mark p. 83

Papias on the Gospel according to Mark p. 87

Irenaeus on the Gospel according to Mark p. 93

Clement of Alexandria and Eusebius on the Gospel according to Mark p. 96

6 The Earliest Users of the Gospel according to Mark p. 99

The Gospel according to Matthew as Continuing the Gospel according to Mark p. 100

The Many Endings of the Incomplete Gospel according to Mark p. 114

7 Reading Mark as Unfinished p. 121

Understanding the Order and Logic of Unfinished Notes p. 123

Ancient Organization of Notes p. 125

The Logic and Structure of the Gospel according to Mark as Unfinished Collection of Notes p. 127

Unfinished Notes and Voices in Tension p. 135.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9780190848583

0190848588

OCLC:

1022699596