Working With Manuscripts: A Guide for Textual Scholars - Softcover

Lied, Liv Ingeborg; Nongbri, Brent

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0300264429 ISBN 13: 9780300264425

Verlag: Yale University Press, 2025

Inhaltsangabe

A first-of-its-kind handbook outlining best practices and common pitfalls for students and textual scholars interested in beginning to work with manuscripts
 
While manuscripts are rare in most of the world today, they were once ubiquitous. Before the printing press, literature was preserved and transmitted through handwritten copies containing variant readings, mistakes, corrections, and other unique features. Those who study premodern texts, however, often use as their primary sources not these diverse artifacts but critical editions that present a single convenient hybrid text.
 
Brent Nongbri and Liv Ingeborg Lied argue that knowledge of manuscripts is important for all interpreters of ancient texts, even if learning how to study them can be confusing and intimidating. In this book they draw on their decades of experience with Jewish and Christian manuscripts to demystify manuscript work. Combining their interests in manuscripts as material artifacts with the ethical issues surrounding the study of manuscripts, Lied and Nongbri guide students through the main phases of research, from considerations of provenance and access to the practicalities of on-site research, analysis, and publication. The book includes aids for locating manuscripts, helpful case studies, tips for organizing data, a glossary, suggestions for further reading, and more.
 
Written in an engaging style with students in mind, this handbook provides an invaluable resource for anyone who wants to study a manuscript for the first time.

Über diesen Titel

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Liv Ingeborg Lied is professor of the study of religion at MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion, and Society. She is the author of Invisible Manuscripts: Textual Scholarship and the Survival of 2 Baruch. Brent Nongbri is professor of history of religions at the MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion, and Society. He is the author of God’s Library: The Archaeology of the Earliest Christian Manuscripts.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Yale University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2025
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0300264429
• ISBN 13: 9780300264425
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 192
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: Wiley-VCH GmbH; product_safety@wiley.com; ; Boschstrasse 12; Weinheim; 69469; Deutschland