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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      30 October 2009
      02 April 1992
      ISBN:
      9780511555107
      9780521413848
      9780521018807
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511555107
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.446kg, 276 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.384kg, 276 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Classical Studies, Biblical Studies - New Testament, Classical Literature, Religion
      Series:
      Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series (71)
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    Subjects:
    Classical Studies, Biblical Studies - New Testament, Classical Literature, Religion
    Series:
    Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series (71)
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    In the book of Acts, the so-called Western text departs from the alternative text in numerous points of detail. These divergences in the textual tradition of Acts have been the subject of renewed interest in recent years, with a notable concentration on Lucan traits in the Western text. The author of this study takes into account recent theories which have been proposed on the textual tradition of Acts, and puts forward an ingenious thesis (not considered hitherto) to explain the existence of two streams of textual tradition for the book. Analysis of a number of Western textual variants in Acts suggests that they may have arisen from the incorporation of marginal annotations into the text of Acts, but Lucan thought and language is indeed characteristic of these readings. Investigation of the non-Western textual tradition uncovers occasional signs of editing according to the interests of the second-century church. From this evidence Dr Strange proposes that Acts shared the fate of numerous other works of antiquity by being published posthumously; the work of two second-century editors is responsible for the remarkable divergence in the textual tradition of Acts.

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