Snapshots of Evolving Traditions : Jewish and Christian Manuscript Culture, Textual Fluidity, and New Philology.

Intro -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- List of Contributors -- Images -- Abbreviations -- Studying Snapshots: On Manuscript Culture, Textual Fluidity, and New Philology -- An Illusion of Textual Stability: Textual Fluidity, New Philology, and the Nag Hammadi Codices -- Reading Variants in James and the Apocalypse of James: A Perspective from New Philology -- The Making of a Secret Book of John: Nag Hammadi Codex III in Light of New Philology -- Two Witnesses, One Valentinian Gospel? The Gospel of Truth in Nag Hammadi Codices I and XII -- Monastic Paideia and Textual Fluidity in the Classroom -- Textual Fluidity in Early Monasticism: Sayings, Sermons and Stories -- Four Texts from Nag Hammadi amid the Textual and Generic Fluidity of the "Letter" in the Literature of Late Antique Egypt -- Know Thy Enemy: The Materialization of Orthodoxy in Syriac Manuscripts -- "You Have Found What You Seek": The Form and Function of a Sixth-Century Divinatory Bible in Syriac -- Between "Text Witness" and "Text on the Page": Trajectories in the History of Editing the Epistle of Baruch -- The End of the Psalms in the Dead Sea Scrolls, Greek Codices, and Syriac Manuscripts -- Translating the Hekhalot Literature: Insights from New Philology -- Indices.

As an accompaniment to the corpus of the Griechischen Christlichen Schriftsteller (GCS), Adolf von Harnack created the monograph series Texte und Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der altchristlichen Literatur (TU) in 1882, which from that time on served as an "archive for the ... editions of older Christian writers".

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