Paratexts and the reception history of the Apocalypse

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dc.contributor.author Allen, Garrick V.
dc.date.accessioned 2020-06-17T10:56:14Z
dc.date.issued 2019-07
dc.description.abstract Biblical scholarship usually engages with reconstructed texts without taking into account the form and material culture of the manuscripts that transmit the texts used in reconstruction. This article examines the influence of paratexts on biblical studies and reception history, using the book of Revelation as a test case, in an effort to rediscover the significance of transmission for comprehending the ways in which past reading communities engaged their scriptural traditions. The liminal features of manuscripts that are often ignored in modern editions are an integral part of the artefact that influence and shape a text’s reading. This study argues that paratexts represent an underdeveloped resource for reception history, insofar as the relationship between text and paratext is rarely taken into consideration by modern interpreters. Material culture, textual transmission, reception history, and exegesis are integrally linked processes. en_ZA
dc.description.department Ancient Languages en_ZA
dc.description.embargo 2021-07-13
dc.description.librarian hj2020 en_ZA
dc.description.uri https://academic.oup.com/jts en_ZA
dc.identifier.citation Allen, G.V. 2019, 'Paratexts and the reception history of the Apocalypse', Journal of Theological Studies, vol. 70, no. 2, pp. 600-632. en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn 0022-5185 (print)
dc.identifier.issn 1477-4607 (online)
dc.identifier.other 10.1093/jts/flz092
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/2263/75013
dc.language.iso en en_ZA
dc.publisher Oxford University Press en_ZA
dc.rights © 2020 Oxford University Press. This is a pre-copy-editing, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in Journal of Theological Studies following peer review. The definitive publisher-authenticated version is : 'Paratexts and the reception history of the Apocalypse', Journal of Theological Studies, vol. 70, no. 2, pp. 600-632, 2019. doi : 10.1093/jts/flz092 , is available online at : https://academic.oup.com/jts. en_ZA
dc.subject Paratexts en_ZA
dc.subject Reception history en_ZA
dc.subject Apocalypse en_ZA
dc.subject.other Humanities articles SDG-04
dc.subject.other SDG-04: Quality education
dc.title Paratexts and the reception history of the Apocalypse en_ZA
dc.type Postprint Article en_ZA


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