TY - BOOK AU - Larsen,Matthew TI - Gospels Before the Book SN - 9780190848590 AV - BS2585.2 .L377 2018 U1 - 226.306 PY - 2018/// CY - Oxford PB - Oxford University Press, Incorporated KW - Bible.-Mark-Criticism, interpretation, etc KW - Electronic books N1 - Cover -- GOSPELS BEFORE THE BOOK -- Copyright -- Contents -- Images and Illustrations -- Preface -- 1. Reading Gospels "before the Book" -- 2. Unfinished and Less Authored Texts -- Cicero, Caesar, and Hirtius -- Pliny the Younger and the Curious Case of the Exorbitantly Expensive Commentarii -- Plato and Hypomnēmata as Memory Aids and Working Texts -- Philo on Hypomnēmata and Their Potential Problems -- Plutarch's Creation and Use of Hypomnēmata -- Galen's Unfinished Texts -- Damis's Hypomnēmata as a Scrapbook of Textual Raw Material -- Conclusion -- 3. Accidental Publication and Postpublication Revision -- Cicero's Wound, Textual Healing, and Pseudepigraphical Pseudepigraphy -- Diodorus Siculus on How to Handle Accidental Publication -- Horace and Examples of Accidental Publication in the Ancient Roman Imagination -- The Idea of Accidental Publication as Asset: 4 Ezra -- Arrian as Writer but Not Author -- Cicero and the Inability to Control One's Own Manuscript Tradition -- Josephus on Pre-​Writing, Rewriting, and Postpublication Revision -- 4. Multiple Authorized Versions of the Same Work -- Versions of the Community Rule as Memory Aids for Instructors -- The Herculaneum Library and the "Working Desk" of Philodemus -- Comparing the Scrolls in Qumran and Herculaneum -- Conclusion -- 5. The Earliest Readers of the Gospel according to Mark -- The Gospel according to Luke on the Gospel according to Mark -- Papias on the Gospel according to Mark -- Irenaeus on the Gospel according to Mark -- Clement of Alexandria and Eusebius on the Gospel according to Mark -- 6. The Earliest Users of the Gospel according to Mark -- The Gospel according to Matthew as Continuing the Gospel according to Mark -- The Many Endings of the Incomplete Gospel according to Mark -- Conclusion -- 7. Reading Mark as Unfinished; Understanding the Order and Logic of Unfinished Notes -- Ancient Organization of Notes -- The Logic and Structure of the Gospel according to Mark as Unfinished Collection of Notes -- Unfinished Notes and Voices in Tension -- Epilogue -- The Gospel according to Mark, the Interpreter, and the Unfinalizable Future -- Paths for Future Work on Gospel Writing -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index of Modern Authors -- Subject Index -- Index of Ancient Sources N2 - What does it look like to read the gospels "before the book"? Larsen explores ancient textual culture and argues the earliest readers and users of the Gospel of Mark regarded it not as a book published by an author but as an unfinished notes UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=5434406 ER -