Published by Gorgias Press

Texts and Studies

Volumes

Book 2018

The Masorah of the Former Prophets in the Leningrad Codex

Vol. 2: Judges

David Marcus

Volume 26 in this series

More Cite

This work represents the first time that a major part of the masorah of the great Leningrad Codex, that of the Former Prophets, is being published with an English translation and commentary. Almost nine-thousand notes are transcribed and annotated with biblical references.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.31826/9781463236953
ISBN:: 9781463236953
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Biblical Reception
Publisher:: Gorgias Press

Book 2017

The Masorah of the Former Prophets in the Leningrad Codex

Vol. 1: Joshua

David Marcus

Volume 16 in this series

More Cite

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.31826/9781463236946
ISBN:: 9781463236946
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Biblical Reception
Publisher:: Gorgias Press

Book 2013

Language and Textual History of the Syriac Bible

Collected Studies

Jan Joosten

More Cite

The Syriac Bible is a fascinating field to which too little research has been devoted. In the present volume, Jan Joosten gathers a number of pilot studies, published in various journals and collective volumes, shedding light on the Syriac Old Testament, New Testament, and the relation between them. A number of studies advance the claim that the Old Syriac and Peshitta gospels preserve echoes of an Aramaic gospel tradition that gives independent access to the earliest, oral traditions on the life and teaching of Jesus.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.31826/9781463234959
ISBN:: 9781463234959
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Biblical Reception
Publisher:: Gorgias Press

Book 2004

The Lord's Prayer in the Early Church

Frederic Henry Chase

More Cite

The late Cambridge scholar F. H. Chase gives an insightful study on the Lord's prayer in the early Christian Church. The study first discusses the early Church and the Synagogue, then goes through an analytical study of every phrase of the prayer.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.31826/9781463209704
ISBN:: 9781463209704
Subject:: General Interest
Publisher:: Gorgias Press

Book 2006

Saint Ephraim's Quotations From The Gospel

F. Crawford Burkitt

More Cite

This book attempts to determine the Gospel text used by Ephraim, and the bearing his quotations have upon the date of the Peshitta. Ephraim is one of the figures from the Syriac-speaking Church whose name is well known in both East and West. His surviving works are by themselves as voluminous as all other remains of Syriac literature earlier than 400 AD. Ephraim’s death in roughly 373 AD means that his Gospel text predates the 5th century and attests a text older than many of the extant manuscripts.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.31826/9781463211066
ISBN:: 9781463211066
Subject:: General Interest
Publisher:: Gorgias Press

Book Open Access 2014

Early Readers, Scholars and Editors of the New Testament

Papers from the Eighth Birmingham Colloquium on the Textual Criticism of the New Testament

Thomas O'Loughlin, Hans Förster, Ulrike Swoboda, Satoshi Toda, Rebekka Schirner, Oliver Norris, Rosalind MacLachlan, Matthew Steinfeld, Amy Anderson, Simon Crisp

More Cite

A collection of ten original papers on the New Testament text, first presented in 2013, which reflect the diversity of current research. Examples of ancient engagement with the Bible include Origen, Eusebius of Caesarea and Augustine along with early translations.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.31826/9781463236496
ISBN:: 9781463236496
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: New Testament
Subject:: Textual History and Criticism
Publisher:: Gorgias Press

Book 2006

Transmission and Reception

New Testament Text-Critical and Exegetical Studies

Jeff W. Childers, David C. Parker

More Cite

The sixteen studies in this volume explore a variety of topics pertaining to the transmission and reception of the New Testament text. Including articles by Barbara Aland, D. C. Parker, Eldon Epp, Gordon Fee, Everett Ferguson, and others, the results of these studies have important implications for the interpretation of the New Testament and for understanding the formative impact of the text on Early Christianity. Indispensable for those interested in textual criticism, this compilation will be a welcome resource for New Testament scholars, and those interested in Early Christianity.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.31826/9781463211189
ISBN:: 9781463211189
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: New Testament
Subject:: Introductions and Overviews
Publisher:: Gorgias Press

Book 2013

The East Syriac Psalm Headings

A Critical Edition

HF Van Rooy

More Cite

The Psalm Headings remain one of the most difficult and puzzling pieces of the Hebrew Bible. The present study looks at how these titles were treated in the East Syriac traditions. This volume gives a history of research and presents a new critical edition based on previously unpublished manuscripts. The Psalm headings in the East Syriac tradition reflect the exegesis of the Antiochene school, especially Diodore of Tarsus and Theodore of Mopsuestia. The headings contain a summary of Theodore's exegesis which had an important influence on the work of Syriac interpreters such as Ishodad of Merv and Bar Hebraeus.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.31826/9781463234140
ISBN:: 9781463234140
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Language and Textual History
Publisher:: Gorgias Press

Book 2013

Scribal Wit

Aramaic Mnemonics in the Leningrad Codex

David Marcus

More Cite

This book presents a detailed analysis of the Aramaic mnemonics, those short witty sentences written in Aramaic as memory aids in the margins of one of the oldest extant biblical Hebrew manuscripts, the Leningrad Codex (1008 CE). The material is presented in clear, user-friendly charts. Each mnemonic is set alongside the Hebrew verses it represents. This book demonstrates the ingenuity of the Masoretes in their grand endeavor to preserve the text of the Hebrew Bible precisely in the form that it had reached them.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.31826/9781463235499
ISBN:: 9781463235499
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Introductions and Overviews
Publisher:: Gorgias Press

Book 2004

The Passion of S. Perpetua

J. Armitage Robinson

More Cite

The story of the two women martyrs S. Perpetua and her slave S. Felicitas (d. 203 CE) have captivated generations of Christians. In this book, the late Cambridge scholar J. A. Robinson provides a study of the Greek and Latin texts of the Passio based on newly discovered manuscripts, as well as the original Latin text of the Scillitan Martyrs, another text of late 2nd century North African martyrdom.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.31826/9781463209711
ISBN:: 9781463209711
Subject:: General Interest
Publisher:: Gorgias Press

Book 2008

Textual Variation: Theological and Social Tendencies?

Papers from the Fifth Birmingham Colloquium on the Textual Criticism of the New Testament

David C. Parker

More Cite

Did scribes intentionally change the text of the New Testament? This book argues they did not and disputes the claims that variant readings are theologically motivated. Using evidence gathered from some of the earliest surviving biblical manuscripts these essays reconstruct the copying habits of scribes and explore the contexts in which they worked. Alongside these are studies of selected early Christian writings, which illustrate attitudes to and examples of textual change.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.31826/9781463215231
ISBN:: 9781463215231
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: New Testament
Subject:: Textual History and Criticism
Publisher:: Gorgias Press

Book 2013

Scribal Habits of Codex Sinaiticus

Dirk Jongkind

More Cite

Codex Sinaiticus is one of the oldest, famous, and most important manuscripts of the Bible. At least three scribes copied the text manually, and they were faced with many decisions: What do I do when I spot an error in the text I just copied? What is the right spelling of this word? Is it time for a new paragraph? This book studies a variety of textual and non-textual phenomena in Codex Sinaiticus. We discover more about this important biblical manuscript as well as the individuals with their own habits, qualities, and skill levels who produced it.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.31826/9781463211592
ISBN:: 9781463211592
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Biblical Reception
Publisher:: Gorgias Press

Book 2013

Studies in the Early Text of the Gospels and Acts

The Papers of the First Birmingham Colloquium on the Textual Criticism of the New Testament

David G.K. Taylor

More Cite

Eleven papers from the First Birmingham Colloquium on the Textual Criticism of the New Testament, examining aspects of the Textus Receptus, the ‘Pre-Johannine Text’ of the Gospel, the ratings system in the United Bible Societies’ Greek New Testament and the application of probability theory to textual transmission, as well as surveys of non-continuous papyrus witnesses to the New Testament and the Dura-Europos Gospel Harmony, alongside studies of variation in the form of the Beatitudes and the location of Emmaus.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.31826/9781463235826
ISBN:: 9781463235826
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: New Testament
Subject:: Introductions and Overviews
Publisher:: Gorgias Press

Book 2004

The Apology of Aristides on behalf of the Christians

Sean A. Adams

More Cite

The Apology of Aristides is the earliest Christian apologia to have survived in its entirety. It was written as a defense of the new Christian way of life against its many rivals and opponents, and details some of its leading ethical precepts. Long thought to have been lost, this early second-century work was rediscovered in a Syriac translation in a seventh-century manuscript preserved in the monastery of St. Catherine on Mount Sinai. This volume contains not only the standard edition of the Syriac text with critical notes, but also the first English translation and a study of surviving fragments in Greek, which were subsequently identified in the 'Life of Barlaam and Josaphat' (an early Christian reworking of the life of Buddha).

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.31826/9781463209728
ISBN:: 9781463209728
Subject:: General Interest
Publisher:: Gorgias Press

Book 2009

Studies in the Peshitta of Kings

The Transmission and Revision of the Text, Relations with other Texts, and Translation Features

Donald M. Walter

More Cite

This monograph examines the manuscript variants of the Peshitta (the standard Syriac translation) of Kings, with special attention to the manuscript 9a1. Manuscript 9a1 is of critical importance for the textual history of Kings, and Walter argues that there is overwhelming evidence that the non-9a1 Mss attest to an extensive revision. This monograph also discusses translation features of the Peshitta of Kings with special attention paid to harmonization and the leveling and dissimulation of vocabulary. Walter also treats the vorlage for the translation and treats its relation to the LXX and the Targumim.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.31826/9781463215798
ISBN:: 9781463215798
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Language and Textual History
Publisher:: Gorgias Press

Book Open Access 2016

Commentaries, Catenae and Biblical Tradition

Papers from the Ninth Birmingham Colloquium on the Textual Criticism of the New Testament, in association with the COMPAUL project

Garrick V. Allen, Shari Boodts, Lukas J. Dorfbauer, Gilles Dorival, Carla Falluomini, John Gram, Susan B. Griffith, Christina M. Kreinecker, William Lamb, Agnès Lorrain, Rosalind MacLachlan, Bruce Morrill, Theodora Panella, David C. Parker, Gert Partoens, Matthias Schulz

More Cite

This collection of original research papers examines early commentaries on the New Testament and the transmission of the biblical text. Focusing principally on Greek and Latin tradition, it provides new insights into the sources and manuscripts of commentators and catenae.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.31826/9781463236908
ISBN:: 9781463236908
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: New Testament
Subject:: Textual History and Criticism
Publisher:: Gorgias Press

Book 2004

The Fragments of Heracleon

A. E. Brooke

More Cite

Only fragments survive of the writings of the Valentinian Gnostic teacher Heracleon (fl. 145-180 AD). The remnants can be found primarily in quotations in Origen's commentary on the Gospel of John. This study gives an edition of the surviving texts with extensive notes, biblical references, and indices. This volume is indispensable for the study of second century Gnosticism.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.31826/9781463209735
ISBN:: 9781463209735
Subject:: General Interest
Publisher:: Gorgias Press

Book 2013

Collected Papers in Greek and Georgian Textual Criticism

Neville Birdsall

More Cite

This volume collects together for the first time the most influential papers of the late scholar of Georgian and New Testament textual critic, J. Neville Birdsall. Professor Birdsall wrote on Greek witnesses to the New Testament text, the Georgian version of the New Testament, palaeography, patristics, and the theory of textual criticism. The collection fully demonstrates the author’s standing as one of the most learned and wide-ranging New Testament textual scholars of modern times.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.31826/9781463210533
ISBN:: 9781463210533
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Biblical Reception
Publisher:: Gorgias Press

Book 2013

Early Syriac Translation Technique and the Textual Criticism of the Greek Gospels

P. J. Williams

More Cite

Although scholars have often made inferences about the Greek texts that lay behind the Old Syriac and Peshitta versions of the Gospels, very few have ever attempted to formulate systematic rules for such inferences. This volume investigates a wide range of textual phenomena and formulates clear and simple rules for the use of Syriac texts as witnesses to the underlying Greek. It becomes possible to uncover errors that have accumulated during the evolution of the Greek New Testament textual apparatus. Williams argues these errors generally stem from the unjustified use of Syriac witnesses.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.31826/9781463235833
ISBN:: 9781463235833
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Introductions and Overviews
Publisher:: Gorgias Press

Book 2016

The Sub-Loco Notes in the Former Prophets of Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia

Christopher Dost

More Cite

In BHS’s Masoretic apparatus, certain Masorah parva notes are marked “sub loco” in order to refer the reader to the corresponding commentary that was to be found in the third volume of Massorah Gedolah. Due to Weil’s passing, however, this commentary was never realized. This volume builds on Mynatt’s 1994 analysis and classification of the Pentateuch’s 297 sub loco notes by incorporating the Aleppo and Cairo Codices. Dost evaluates all 451 sub loco notes in the corpus of the Former Prophets, and evaluates Weil’s contribution by comparing Weil's revision of the Leningrad Codex’s Masorah against the Masorah of the Aleppo Codex.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.31826/9781463235932
ISBN:: 9781463235932
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Introductions and Overviews
Publisher:: Gorgias Press