Textual Criticism and Sacred Texts
1st Edition
Published on 20. March 2023
228 pages
978-1-6669-0161-0 (ISBN)
Description
In Textual Criticism and Sacred Texts, Signe Cohen looks at the text-critical scholarship on sacred texts across disciplines. She traces the development of the genealogical method and discusses its role in textual criticism today. The book examines the applicability of traditional text-critical methods to oral texts as well as the roles of translations and commentaries in textual criticism. Cohen then turns to the under-theorized question of the relationship between religion and text-critical scholarship and outlines ethics of textual criticism applied to religious texts. She then discusses how new digital technologies will change the textual scholarship of the future and proposes new ways that scholars can collaborate across sub-disciplines.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-6669-0161-0 (9781666901610)
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Signe Cohen is associate professor of Asian Religions at the University of Missouri-Columbia.
Content
Acknowledgments
Introduction: What is Textual Criticism?
Chapter One: The Lachmannian Method, Criticisms, Refinements, and Alternatives
Chapter Two: Textual Criticism of Sacred Texts: The State of the Scholarship
Chapter Three: Textual Criticism and Oral Texts
Chapter Four: Translations, Commentaries, and Textual Criticism
Chapter Five: Textual Criticism and Religion: Towards an Ethics of Textual Criticism of Sacred Texts
Chapter Six: Computer-Aided Textual Criticism and the Religious Text
Conclusion: Towards a Comparative Textual Criticism
Bibliography
About the Author
Introduction: What is Textual Criticism?
Chapter One: The Lachmannian Method, Criticisms, Refinements, and Alternatives
Chapter Two: Textual Criticism of Sacred Texts: The State of the Scholarship
Chapter Three: Textual Criticism and Oral Texts
Chapter Four: Translations, Commentaries, and Textual Criticism
Chapter Five: Textual Criticism and Religion: Towards an Ethics of Textual Criticism of Sacred Texts
Chapter Six: Computer-Aided Textual Criticism and the Religious Text
Conclusion: Towards a Comparative Textual Criticism
Bibliography
About the Author
