Paratexts and the reception history of the Apocalypse

dc.contributor.authorAllen, Garrick V.
dc.date.accessioned2020-06-17T10:56:14Z
dc.date.issued2019-07
dc.description.abstractBiblical 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.departmentAncient Languagesen_ZA
dc.description.embargo2021-07-13
dc.description.librarianhj2020en_ZA
dc.description.urihttps://academic.oup.com/jtsen_ZA
dc.identifier.citationAllen, 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.issn0022-5185 (print)
dc.identifier.issn1477-4607 (online)
dc.identifier.other10.1093/jts/flz092
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/75013
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherOxford University Pressen_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.subjectParatextsen_ZA
dc.subjectReception historyen_ZA
dc.subjectApocalypseen_ZA
dc.subject.otherHumanities articles SDG-04
dc.subject.otherSDG-04: Quality education
dc.titleParatexts and the reception history of the Apocalypseen_ZA
dc.typePostprint Articleen_ZA

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