Do the Eusebian Canon Tables Represent the Closure or the Opening of the Biblical Text? Considering the Case of Codex Fuldensis
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Crawford, Matthew. (2020). Do the Eusebian Canon Tables Represent the Closure or the Opening of the Biblical Text? Considering the Case of Codex Fuldensis. In In Alessandro Bausi, Bruno Reudenbach and Hanna Wimmer (Ed.). Canones: The Art of Harmony: The Canon Tables of the Four Gospels pp. 17-27 De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110625844-002
Authors | Crawford, Matthew |
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Editors | Alessandro Bausi, Bruno Reudenbach and Hanna Wimmer |
Abstract | This chapter examines the implications the Eusebian canon tables had for the reading of the text of the gospels. Although Werner H. Kelber has suggested that the canon tables represent a milestone in the closing of the biblical text, I use the work of anthropologist Jack Goody to argue that, on the contrary, they are an infor-mation technology that opens up the text of the fourfold gospel to new kinds of analysis. This claim is then illus-trated through a close examination of the modified canon tables apparatus Victor of Capua included along with the text of his Latin translation of Tatian’s Diatessaron in the sixth-century Codex Fuldensis. Victor’s modified version of the Eusebian apparatus made this manuscript the most paratextually complex book that had ever existed in the Latin tradition, allowing the reader to identify the por-tions of the four gospels Tatian was using for each line of his unum ex quattuor euangelium. |
Page range | 17-27 |
Year | 2020 |
Book title | Canones: The Art of Harmony: The Canon Tables of the Four Gospels |
Publisher | De Gruyter |
Place of publication | Germany |
ISBN | 9783110625769 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110625844-002 |
Publisher's version | License File Access Level Open |
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Deposited | 18 May 2021 |
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