Gibson, Samuel James (2016). The liturgical and textual tradition of Acts and Paul in the Byzantine apostolos lectionary. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.
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Abstract
The Apostolos is a corpus of manuscripts containing New Testament and liturgical material. For Byzantines it was the primary form in which the Acts and Epistles were received as Scripture. Lectionary studies were almost abandoned after the mid-twentieth century, and the recent revival of interest in the Greek Lectionary has concentrated exclusively on the Gospel Lectionary. The last study of the Apostolos is five decades old and reflects the methodologies of another era. Building upon the work of recent Lectionary scholarship this thesis takes a new approach to the Apostolos, analysing New Testament and liturgical textual traditions together.
The text of Acts and the Pauline corpus as transmitted in the Lectionary is compared with the continuous text. It is shown that one Apostolos witness is not usually copied to another and that consequently there is no ‘Lectionary text’ of Acts and Paul. Instead, Apostolos copies reflect textual variation in the evolving Byzantine tradition. Digital methods allow the present thesis to explore groupings among Apostolos manuscripts combined with detailed attention to the contents of each codex. This study concentrates on the Apostolos in its scribal, monastic, liturgical, and theological context as well as in light of other manuscript traditions.
Please cite this work as:
Gibson, S. (2016) The liturgical and textual tradition of Acts and Paul in the Byzantine apostolos lectionary. Ph.D. Thesis. University of Birmingham. Available at https://etheses.bham.ac.uk/id/eprint/6589/ (Accessed: day/month/year)
The author has published this work as a monograph. The published monograph should be cited as the following:
Gibson. S. (2018) The Apostolos: The Acts and Epistles in Byzantine Liturgical Manuscripts. Georgias Press LLC
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| Award Type: | Doctorates > Ph.D. | ||||||
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| College/Faculty: | Colleges (2008 onwards) > College of Arts & Law | ||||||
| School or Department: | School of Philosophy, Theology and Religion, Department of Theology and Religion, Institute for Textual Scholarship and Electronic Editing | ||||||
| Funders: | Other | ||||||
| Other Funders: | The University of Birmingham | ||||||
| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BS The Bible | ||||||
| URI: | http://etheses.bham.ac.uk/id/eprint/6589 |
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