Patristic and text-critical studies : the collected essays of William L. Petersen / edited by Jan Krans, Joseph Verheyden.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Petersen, William Lawrence, 1950-2006.

Contributor:

Krans, Jan.

Verheyden, Joseph, 1957-

Series:

New Testament tools, studies and documents ; v. 40.

New Testament tools, studies and documents, 0077-8842 ; v. 40

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible. New Testament--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bible.

Bible. N.T. Gospels--Syriac--Versions--Diatessaron.

Tatian, approximately 120-173.

Tatian.

Romanus, Melodus, Saint, active 6th century.

Romanus.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (636 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

William L. (“Bill”) Petersen (1950-2006) was a prominent Diatessaron scholar and New Testament textual critic. This collection brings together thirty-two of his essays, enabling an overview of his impressive and wide-ranging scholarship on Romanos the Melodist, Tatian and his Diatessaron, Patristic studies, and New Testament textual criticism. It will be of value for all those interested in the state and method of these fields of study, on which it offers engaging and sometimes provocative perspectives.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Chapter One The Parable of the Lost Sheep in the Gospel of Thomas and the Synoptics

Chapter Two Romanos and the Diatessaron: Readings and Method

Chapter Three The Dependence of Romanos the Melodist upon the Syriac Ephrem: Its Importance for the Origin of the Kontakion

Chapter Four Can Ἀρσενοκοῖται be Translated by “Homosexuals”? (1 Cor. 6.9; 1 Tim. 1.10)

Chapter Five New Evidence for the Question of the Original Language of the Diatessaron

Chapter Six An Important Unnoticed Diatessaronic Reading in Turfan Fragment M-18

Chapter Seven The Text of the Gospels in Origen’s Commentaries on John and Matthew

Chapter Eight Some Remarks on the Integrity of Ephrem’s Commentary on the Diatessaron

Chapter Nine On the Study of “Homosexuality” in Patristic Sources

Chapter Ten New Evidence for a Second Century Source of The Heliand

Chapter Eleven Textual Evidence of Tatian’s Dependence upon Justin’s Ἀπομνημονεύματα

Chapter Twelve The Dependence of Romanos the Melodist upon the Syriac Ephrem

Chapter Thirteen The Christology of Aphrahat, the Persian Sage: An Excursus on the 17th Demonstration

Chapter Fourteen Tatian’s Diatessaron

Chapter Fifteen Eusebius and the Paschal Controversy

Chapter Sixteen What Text Can New Testament Textual Criticism Ultimately Reach?

Chapter Seventeen The Diatessaron of Tatian

Chapter Eighteen A New Testimonium to a Judaic-Christian Gospel Fragment from a Hymn of Romanos the Melodist

Chapter Nineteen From Justin to Pepys: The History of the Harmonized Gospel Tradition

Chapter Twenty Οὐδὲ ἐγώ σε [κατα]κρίνω: John 8:11, the Protevangelium Iacobi, and the History of the Pericope Adulterae

Chapter Twenty-One The Vorlage of Shem-Tob’s ‘Hebrew Matthew’

Chapter Twenty-Two Ephrem Syrus and the Venerable Bede: Do East and West Meet?

Chapter Twenty-Three Constructing the Matrix of Judaic Christianity from Texts

Chapter Twenty-Four The Genesis of the Gospels

Chapter Twenty-Five The Diatessaron and the Fourfold Gospel

Chapter Twenty-Six Tatian the Assyrian

Chapter Twenty-Seven Textual Traditions Examined: What the Text of the Apostolic Fathers Tells Us about the Text of the New Testament in the Second Century

Chapter Twenty-Eight Canonicity, Ecclesiastical Authority, and Tatian’s Diatessaron

Chapter Twenty-Nine Problems in the Syriac New Testament and How Syrian Exegetes Solved Them

Chapter Thirty Patristic Biblical Quotations and Method: Four Changes to Lightfoot’s Edition of Second Clement

Chapter Thirty-One Richard Bentley and New Testament Textual Criticism: Reverence and Irreverence

Chapter Thirty-Two The Syro-Latin Text of the Gospels, or How the “Western Text” Became a Phantom

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-36594-4

9786613365941

90-04-19613-7

OCLC:

774290472

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004196131 DOI