Textual Criticism

Martone, Corrado. "All the Bibles We Need: The Impact of the Qumran Evidence on Biblical ‎Lower Criticism." In: George J. Brooke, Daniel K. Falk, Eibert J.C. Tigchelaar and Molly M. Zahn ‎‎(eds.) The Scrolls and Biblical Traditions. Proceedings of the Seventh Meeting of the IOQS in ‎Helsinki (STDJ 103; Leiden - Boston: Brill, 2012), pp. 47-64‎

by Corrado Martone

L'anello del re e il «Paradiso» dell'Evangelista. Genesi di un episodio della «Vita sancti Edwardi regis et confessoris» di Aelredo di Rievaulx

by Francesco Marzella

published in 'Hagriographica' XVIII (2011), pp. 217-61.

The legend of the ring given by St. Edward the Confessor to St. John the Evangelist is probably the most famous of the... more The legend of the ring given by St. Edward the Confessor to St. John the Evangelist is probably the most famous of the stories that appear in the hagiographical dossier of the English saint, and the first instance of it had seemed to be in Aelred of Reivaulx's Vita sancti Edwardi regis et confessoris. However, a variant version of the story was found by Marc Bloch in an epitome of Osbert of Clare's Vita beati Eadwardi regis Anglorum. Now for the first time the complete text of this variant version (published with this article) is identified in a manuscript kept in Lambeth Palace Library. This discovery leads to new insights, and points to the conclusion that this version, wich derives many motives from visions of the other-world and tales of journeys to the Earthly Paradise, is probably the oldest and was interpolated in the biography written by Osbert before the canonization of Edward the Confessor (1161). Aelred therefore was not the first author to tell the legend, but reshaped it to fit his new biography of the saint.

La ridestinazione del commento dantesco di Giovanni da Serravalle a Sigismondo di Lussemburgo: implicazioni testuali.

by Gennaro Ferrante

Published in "Rivista di Studi danteschi", a. VIII 2008, fasc. 1, pp. 143-167.

Il commento dantesco di Giovanni da Serravalle e l'ascendente benvenutiano: tra "compilatio" d'autore e riproduzione inerziale.

by Gennaro Ferrante

Published in "Filologia dei testi d'autore". Atti del Convegno-Roma, Ottobre 2007, Firenze, Cesati, pp. 47-72.

Reflections of Decoration: Exhibition Text Analysis

by Rachel Smith

“Revelation 19,10: One Verse in Search of an Author,” Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft 91 (2000): 230-37

by Bruce Longenecker

There is a paucity of evidence to support R. H. Charles's hypothesis that Rev 19:10 was an interpolation. His... more There is a paucity of evidence to support R. H. Charles's hypothesis that Rev 19:10 was an interpolation. His confident case concerning the influence of a redactor in this verse is supportable only by impressionistic conjecture, reliance on insubstantial textual evidence, misrepresentation of stylistic evidence, and incorporating interpretive distinctions that have no contextual merit. Consequently, the most prudent conclusion to draw is that 19:10 is integral to the text and originated with the author of Revelation.--D.J.H. Abstract Number: NTA45-2001-2-1213

Get Your Laws off my Body! by Elise Edwards

by Feminism and Religion

Originally published on the Feminism and Religion project.

After considering Virginia’s Transvaginal Utrasound Bill in light of the womanist critique, I wonder if... more After considering Virginia’s Transvaginal Utrasound Bill in light of the womanist critique, I wonder if religiously-motivated lawmakers considered that they alone do not have access to God’s intentions, but that the divine spirit is operative in a pregnant woman as well, would they be so willing to negate her moral agency?

On Tuesday, the senate in Virginia approved a law that would require women to get an external ultrasound before an abortion.  This is a scaled-back version of an original bill that mandated transvaginal ultrasounds prior to abortions. According to this Washington Post article, opponents like Sen. Janet D. Howell describe the measure as “state rape,” since it is the state, not the woman and her doctor who decides that she must undergo this procedure  requiring the insertion of a probe into the vagina.  Although proponents of the bill say that it is designed to give women more information about a fetus’ gestational age and development, most would agree that it is ultimately intended to discourage the women from having an abortion.

Проектът Златоструй: реконструкция. (Chrysorrhoas Project: Reconstruction)

by Yavor Miltenov

В: Компютърни и интерактивни средства за езиковедски изследвания. Сборник доклади от заключителната конференция. София, 2011, 85–95. (In: Computer and Interactive Tools for Linguistic Research. Papers from the Closing Conference. Sofia, 2011, 85–95).

My own copy (in fact - draft version), not a scan from the book. It's in Bulgarian.

The paper deals with the reconstruction of the history of a Chrysostomian text corpus, constituted in 10th century... more The paper deals with the reconstruction of the history of a Chrysostomian text corpus, constituted in 10th century Bulgaria and commissioned by king Symeon, that was named (alledgedly by the ruler) Zlatostruy, i.e. Chrysorrhoas. The way it was compiled, the idea behind it and its impact fully justify the use of term project about it.
The corpus consisted of more than 150 homilies translated from Greek. Only excerpts from it have survived in other collections, which means that a text critical analysis should be undertaken in order to reconstruct its initial contents and the archetype of each text.

Practice What You Preach by Corinna Guerrero

by Feminism and Religion

Originally published on the Feminism and Religion project

The underlying principle that links a feminist critique to every other critical lens since the rise of feminist... more The underlying principle that links a feminist critique to every other critical lens since the rise of feminist discourse is the “hermeneutic of suspicion.” Essentially,  a hermeneutic of suspicion identifies the disconnect between rhetoric and a lived reality. The lived lives of women are different than the pontifications espoused directly and indirectly by the traditionally patriarchal social, political, cultural, religious, and educational structures in which individuals participate.

I like to think that I live my life bucking these structures whenever possible because the roles a woman plays in her own life should: 1) be determined by her; and 2) if she negotiates more “traditional practices” (e.g. marriage, motherhood, etc.) then these practices do not limit her to traditionalist practices (e.g. staying at home, spousal servitude, etc.). Granted, I used the two most generic examples of traditional and traditionalist practices, but the point is still valid. When I go to holidays with my extended family there are very few questions or comments about my PhD program, but many comments about the fact that I do not make a plate of food  for my husband. 

My hermeneutic of suspicion was triggered at a Bible Study last week. I will refrain from listing the denominational affiliation of the Christian church, the ethno-racial configuration of the participants, and the economic background of the community. In this way, the Bible Study does not represent our denominational, ethno-racial, or classist prejudices (and we all have them). It represents a common scenario faced by women and men every day who are hopeful and eager for better religious education

"Zadokite Interpolators at Work. A Note on CD III,21-IV,4." In Textual Criticism and Dead Sea Scrolls Studies in Honour of Julio Trebolle Barrera. Florilegium Complutense. Edited by Andrés Piquer Otero - Pablo A. Torijano Morales (Brill: Leiden 2012) 235-240

by Corrado Martone

Dialogues and anthologies of the Sacred Arsenal by Andronikos Kamateros: sources, arrangements, purposes

by Alessandra Bucossi

Encyclopaedic Trends in Byzantium - Proceedings of the International conference held in Leuven, 6-8 May 2009, ed. C. Macé and P. Van Deun, series Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 212 (Peeters: Leuven, 2011)

«Поидоша полкове аки борове» : сравнения с явлениями природы как прием описания войны в «Повести временных лет»

by Dmitriy Dobrowolski

// Восточная Европа в древности и средневековье : миграции, расселение, война как факторы политогенеза : XXIV Чтения памяти чл.-корр. АН СССР В.Т. Пашуто. Москва, 18–20 апр. 2012 г. : м-лы конф. М., 2012. С. 89–92.

Реконструкция летописных сводов XI в. : поиски эффективного приема

by Dmitriy Dobrowolski

// Когнитивная история : концепция — методы — исследовательские практики : Чтения памяти проф. О.М. Медушевской. М. : Рос. гос. гуманит. ун-т, 2011. С. 241–260.

Critical analysis of methods applied in textological stratification of Pověst Vremennykh Lět. Critical analysis of methods applied in textological stratification of Pověst Vremennykh Lět.

'We Are All Customers Now...'Rhetorical Strategy and Ideological Control in Marketing Management Texts*

by Chris Hackley

"We Are All Customers Now": Rhetorical Strategy and Ideological Control in Marketing Management Texts. / Hackley, C..

In: Journal of Management Studies, Vol. 40, No. 5, 2003, p. 1325-1352.

ABSTRACT This paper critically appraises the rhetoric of marketing management texts. Its interpretive frame is... more ABSTRACT This paper critically appraises the rhetoric of marketing management texts. Its interpretive frame is informed respectively by critical management and discourse analytic theoretical traditions. Its main data set is drawn from popular
textbooks written for taught university courses but it also draws attention to similar rhetorical strategies in leading academic marketing journals. In addition, parallels are drawn with other popular management and consulting fields. In this way the paper
attempts to mark out an initial topology of the ideological influence that is enabled and mobilized by marketing's rhetorical strategies. Marketing rhetoric often escapes critical attention precisely because it is platitudinous. Marketing management axioms have become slogans and the slogans have become cliches regularly employed in organizational, educational and political settings. But the prevalence of platitudinous rhetoric in management consulting schemes does not necessarily hinder their popularity or inhibit the deployment of their rhetorical/ideological strategies in other settings. Popular marketing management rhetoric is a special case because it positions itself not only as a prescriptive management-consulting framework but also as a legitimate academic fleld. It is in the latter guise that the success of managerial marketing's rhetorical/ideological strategies has proved most striking.

"Non-anaphoric Uses of Demonstrative Pronouns in Babylonian Jewish Aramaic", Leshonenu 74 (forthcoming)

by Elitzur Bar-Asher Siegal

This paper argues that the demonstrative pronouns in Babylonian Jewish Aramaic, alongside their regular anaphoric... more This paper argues that the demonstrative pronouns in Babylonian Jewish Aramaic, alongside their regular anaphoric uses, form a paradigm of uses which are neither exophoric nor endophoric. Distal and medial demonstratives are used with indefinite references (with the distinction that the former introduce the topics of the narrative unit and the latter the non-topic participants), and proximal demonstratives either introduce known entities (the “recognitial use”) or appear in generic statements. The paper examines the conditions for each of the uses--as compared to similar phenomena in English--and argues that, like the exophoric uses of demonstratives, which introduce entities in the surrounding physical situation, the above-mentioned usages form a paradigm of contrastive uses for presentation of their referents in a narrative.
In addition, this paper considers the historical relationship between the three categories of demonstratives in Aramaic and in Armenian. It also examines the ramifications of this type of study for developing a comparative methodology for manuscript research in order to produce a grammar of Babylonian Jewish Aramaic.

The Text of Caxton's Second Edition of the Canterbury Tales

by Barbara Bordalejo

I quindici segni del Giudizio: appunti sulla tradizione indiretta della Legenda aurea nella Firenze del Trecento, in Studi su volgarizzamenti italiani due-trecenteschi, a cura di Paolo Rinoldi e Gabriella Ronchi, Roma, Viella, 2005, pp. 47-64.

by Paolo Divizia

Eschilo, Pers. 329

by Stefano Amendola

Lexis 28, 2010, pp. 21-33

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Appunti sulla tradizione dell’Arzenibuoch Ypocratis: Bamberger Arzneibuch e Zürcher Arzneibuch a confronto, “Quaderni della sezione di glottologia e linguistica del dipartimento di Studi Medievali e Moderni dell’Università ‘G. d’Annunzio’ di Chieti”, n. 19-20, 2007-2008 [2009], pp. 15-38.

by Valeria Di Clemente

Il n’y a pas de rapport sexuel: The Irresolvability of the Gadamer-Habermas Debate

by William J. Urban

class paper written Good Friday, April 6, 2012