| Título : | Textual criticism | | Tipo de documento: | texto impreso | | Autores: | McCarter, Kyle, Autor | | Mención de edición: | 1° | | Editorial: | Fortress Press | | Fecha de publicación: | 1986 | | Número de páginas: | 86 páginas | | Nota general: | <27158> | | Idioma : | Inglés Idioma original : Inglés | | Clasificación: | 221/OTS/14/(ING) | | Resumen: | EDITOR’S FOREWORD 7
ABBREVIATIONS AND SYMBOLS 9
I. THE ART AND SCIENCE OF TEXTUAL CRITICISM 11
A. The Necessity of Textual Criticism 11
B. In Defense of Textual Criticism 13
1. Some Common Fallacies 13
C. Housman’s Dog 18
D. Some General Guidelines 20
1. Guidelines for Preparation 20
2. Rules of Application 22
II. THE CAUSES OF TEXTUAL CORRUPTION 26
A. Changes That Expand the Text 26
1. Simple Expansion 27
a. Intrusive Words Providing Clarity or Emphasis 27
b. Intrusive Clichés 28
c. Additions Under the Influence of Other
Parts of thePassage 28
2. Dittography 29
a. Simple Dittography 29
b. Dittography Compounded by Other Errors 31
3. Glossing 32
a. To Explain Obscure Terms 32
b. To Explain Unusual or Obscure Statements 33
c. To Identify Obscure or Ambigous Place-names 34
d. To Make the Implicit Explicit 34
e. To Qualify Generalizations 35
f. To Extend the Meaning of a Passage 35
4. Explication 36
5. Conflation 36
a. Conflitation of Variant Readings 36
b. Attraction and Assimilation 38
B. Changes That Shorten the Text 38
1. Haplography 38
2. Parablepsis 39
a. Homoioarkton 40
b. Homoioteleuton 41
3. Other Omissions 42
C. Changes That Do Not Affect the Length of the Text 43
1. Graphic Confusion 43
2. Misdivision 49
3. Transposition (Metathesis) 50
4. Modernization 51
a. Grammar 51
(1) The long form of prepositions 51
(2) Enclitic mem 52
b. Spelling 53
c. Pronunciation 54
(1) Quiescence of ‘alep 54
(2) Quiescence of ‘ayin 55
5. Prosaizing 56
a. Insertion of Copulatives 56
b. Insertion of ‘t 56
c. Insertion of the Article 56
6. Interpretative Errors 57
a. Misdivision of Verses 57
b. Misvocalization 57
D. Deliberate Changes 57
1. The tiqqune soperim 58
2. Euphemistic Insertions 59
3. Euphemistic Substitutions 60
4. Harmonizing Substitutions 60
5. Suppressed Readings 61
III. THE BASIC PROCEDURES OF TEXTUAL CRITICISM 62
A. The Three Stages of Textual Criticism 62
B. The Critical Process 63
1. The Evaluation of Witnesses 63
a. Evaluative Criteria 64
(1) Independence 64
(2) Authenticity 65
(3) Retrovertibility 66
b. Evaluative Procedures 67
(1) Marshal all witnesses 67
(2) Collate the witnesses by language groups 68
(3) Compare LXX and its daughter translations 68
(4) Compare MT and its non-Greek versions 68
(5) Retrovert into Hebrew 68
(6) Discard witnesses without independent value 70
2. Choosing Between Readings 71
a. The Unreliability of External Criteria 71
b. Internal Criteria 72
(1) The basic principle 72
(2) Other rules 72
(a) The rule of the more difficult reading 73
(b) The rule of the shorter reading 73
(c) The appropriateness of a reading to its context 74
(d) Reading offering stylisti improvements 74
(e) Modernizing readings 74
(f) Simplifying or trivializing readings 74
(g) Readings that resolve contradictions 74
(h) The special rule of parallel texts 74
3. Emendation 74
APPENDICES
Appendix A. A Text-Critical Glossary 76
Appendix B. Bibliography of Primary Sources 80
A. Critical Editions 80
B. Manuscripts from the Judean Desert 82
Appendix C. Textual Characteristics of the Books of the Hebrew Bible 8
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Textual criticism [texto impreso] / McCarter, Kyle, Autor . - 1° . - [S.l.] : Fortress Press, 1986 . - 86 páginas. <27158> Idioma : Inglés Idioma original : Inglés | Clasificación: | 221/OTS/14/(ING) | | Resumen: | EDITOR’S FOREWORD 7
ABBREVIATIONS AND SYMBOLS 9
I. THE ART AND SCIENCE OF TEXTUAL CRITICISM 11
A. The Necessity of Textual Criticism 11
B. In Defense of Textual Criticism 13
1. Some Common Fallacies 13
C. Housman’s Dog 18
D. Some General Guidelines 20
1. Guidelines for Preparation 20
2. Rules of Application 22
II. THE CAUSES OF TEXTUAL CORRUPTION 26
A. Changes That Expand the Text 26
1. Simple Expansion 27
a. Intrusive Words Providing Clarity or Emphasis 27
b. Intrusive Clichés 28
c. Additions Under the Influence of Other
Parts of thePassage 28
2. Dittography 29
a. Simple Dittography 29
b. Dittography Compounded by Other Errors 31
3. Glossing 32
a. To Explain Obscure Terms 32
b. To Explain Unusual or Obscure Statements 33
c. To Identify Obscure or Ambigous Place-names 34
d. To Make the Implicit Explicit 34
e. To Qualify Generalizations 35
f. To Extend the Meaning of a Passage 35
4. Explication 36
5. Conflation 36
a. Conflitation of Variant Readings 36
b. Attraction and Assimilation 38
B. Changes That Shorten the Text 38
1. Haplography 38
2. Parablepsis 39
a. Homoioarkton 40
b. Homoioteleuton 41
3. Other Omissions 42
C. Changes That Do Not Affect the Length of the Text 43
1. Graphic Confusion 43
2. Misdivision 49
3. Transposition (Metathesis) 50
4. Modernization 51
a. Grammar 51
(1) The long form of prepositions 51
(2) Enclitic mem 52
b. Spelling 53
c. Pronunciation 54
(1) Quiescence of ‘alep 54
(2) Quiescence of ‘ayin 55
5. Prosaizing 56
a. Insertion of Copulatives 56
b. Insertion of ‘t 56
c. Insertion of the Article 56
6. Interpretative Errors 57
a. Misdivision of Verses 57
b. Misvocalization 57
D. Deliberate Changes 57
1. The tiqqune soperim 58
2. Euphemistic Insertions 59
3. Euphemistic Substitutions 60
4. Harmonizing Substitutions 60
5. Suppressed Readings 61
III. THE BASIC PROCEDURES OF TEXTUAL CRITICISM 62
A. The Three Stages of Textual Criticism 62
B. The Critical Process 63
1. The Evaluation of Witnesses 63
a. Evaluative Criteria 64
(1) Independence 64
(2) Authenticity 65
(3) Retrovertibility 66
b. Evaluative Procedures 67
(1) Marshal all witnesses 67
(2) Collate the witnesses by language groups 68
(3) Compare LXX and its daughter translations 68
(4) Compare MT and its non-Greek versions 68
(5) Retrovert into Hebrew 68
(6) Discard witnesses without independent value 70
2. Choosing Between Readings 71
a. The Unreliability of External Criteria 71
b. Internal Criteria 72
(1) The basic principle 72
(2) Other rules 72
(a) The rule of the more difficult reading 73
(b) The rule of the shorter reading 73
(c) The appropriateness of a reading to its context 74
(d) Reading offering stylisti improvements 74
(e) Modernizing readings 74
(f) Simplifying or trivializing readings 74
(g) Readings that resolve contradictions 74
(h) The special rule of parallel texts 74
3. Emendation 74
APPENDICES
Appendix A. A Text-Critical Glossary 76
Appendix B. Bibliography of Primary Sources 80
A. Critical Editions 80
B. Manuscripts from the Judean Desert 82
Appendix C. Textual Characteristics of the Books of the Hebrew Bible 8
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