Book of Seven Seals (eBook)

Cover 1
Preface 6
Table of Contents 8
Thomas J. Kraus: Introduction 10
Part One: The Peculiarity of Majuscules and Minuscules 18
Giovanni Bazzana: “Write in a Book What You See and Send It to the Seven Assemblies”. Ancient Reading Practices and the Earliest Papyri of Revelation 20
Jeff Cate: The Curious Case of ??????. Another New Testament Opisthograph? 42
1 The Text of ?????? 44
2 Oddities about the Format of ?????? 46
3 ?????? as a Roll? 54
4 Conclusion 58
Thomas J. Kraus: ?When symbols and figures become physical objects?. Critical notes about some of the “consistently cited witnesses” to the text of Revelation 60
1 Introduction – the peculiarity of the textual attestation of Rev 60
2 “Consistently cited witnesses” in NA²? and NA²? 63
3 Noteworthy palaeographic observations and reflections on some of the “consistently cited witnesses” 65
3.1 ??????¹? (P.Oxy VIII 1079 = LDAB 2786 TM 61636)
3.2 ???????³ (P.Lond.Lit. 220 = LDAB 2824 TM 61673)
3.3 ???????? (P.IFAO II 31 = LDAB 2776 TM 61626)
3.4 Majuscule 0229 (PSI XIII 1296 = LDAB 2839 TM 61688)
3.5 Majuscule 0163 (P.Oxy VI 848 = LDAB 2799 TM 61649)
3.6 Majuscule 0169 (P.Oxy VIII 1080 = LDAB 2793 TM 61643)
3.7 Majuscule 0308 (P.Oxy LXVI 4500 = LDAB 7162 TM 65899)
Excursus:0163, 0169, and 0308 as (fragments from) miniature codices 73
Some additional miniature codices with Rev 76
4 Conclusion 77
5 Prospects 77
Jeff Cate: Sisters Separated from Birth. An Examination of 792 and 2643 as Private Miniature Manuscripts 80
1 The Origins of 792 and 2643 80
2 The Peculiar Size of 792 and 2643 83
3 The Peculiar Contents of 792 and 2643 84
4 The Peculiar Textual Relationship of 792 and 2643 88
4.1 Peculiar Readings in the Gospels 93
4.2 Peculiar Readings in the Apocalypse 98
5 Conclusion 100
Part Two: The Peculiarity of Reception 102
Tobias Nicklas: Christliche Apokalypsen in Ägypten vor Konstantin. Kanon, Autorität, kontextuelle Funktion 104
1 Die Offenbarung des Johannes 107
1.1 P.IFAO II 31 108
1.2 P.IFAO II 31 und das „Neue Testament“? 109
1.3 Die Zeugnisse der Offenbarung in vorkonstantinischer Zeit 111
2 Der Hirt des Hermas 115
3 Die griechische (bzw. äthiopische) Petrusapokalypse (bzw. Offenbarung des Petrus) 119
4 Fazit 125
Lincoln H. Blumell and Thomas A. Wayment: The ‘Number of the Beast’. Revelation 13:18 and Early Christian Isopsephies 128
1 Isopsephy 129
2 The case of Revelation 13:18 133
3 Early Christian Isopsephies 138
4 Conclusion 143
Martin Meiser: Before Canonisation. Early Attestation of Revelation 146
1 Introduction 146
2 The Second Century 146
2.1 Justin 147
2.2 The Congregation of Lyons 147
2.3 Melito of Sardes 147
2.4 Irenaeus 148
3 The Third Century 150
3.1 Tertullian 150
3.2 Clement of Alexandria 153
3.3 Origen 154
3.4 Hippolytus of Rome 157
3.5 Cyprian 158
3.6 Victorinus of Pettau 161
3.7 The Passion of Perpetua and the Vision of Saturus 162
3.8 Methodius 163
3.9 Lactantius 164
4 Conclusion 166
4.1 Most important issues 166
4.2 Most used texts 167
4.3 Exegetical efforts 167
Michael J. Kruger: The Reception of the Book of Revelation in the Early Church 168
1 Initial Reception of Revelation 170
2 Later Doubts about Revelation 176
3 An uneasy Consensus on Revelation 181
Michael Sommer: What do Revelation’s handwritings tell us about its post-canonical role and function in the Bible? ‘Work in progress’ 184
1 Introduction 184
2 Revelation’s handwritings – ceterum censeo of text-critical apocalypse research 185
3 Methodical limits 187
4 How manuscripts look – canon history and text-critical phenomenology 190
5 Inventory of manuscripts 193
6 Handwritings as contemporary witnesses 193
6.1 Differences in hermeneutics 193
6.2 Book of Revelation as last book of Bible 194
6.3 Revelation and the Gospel of John 197
6.4 Apocalypse of Jesus Christ and Hebrews 201
6.5 Day of Lord – Revelation, Jude and eschatology of ‘New Testament’ 203
6.6 Revelation and letter to Philemon 204
7 Summary 204
Part Three: The Peculiarities and Miscellaneous 208
Markus Lembke: Besonderheiten der griechischen Überlieferung der Offenbarung und ihre Auswirkungen auf die Textkritik 210
1 Das Fehlen eines einheitlichen ‚alten Textes‘ 211
1.1 P47–01 versus 02–04 211
1.2 Genealogische und phänomenologische Gruppierung 214
1.3 Zur Einordnung des Ökumeniustextes und der Minuskel 2344 215
1.4 Andere, selbstständige Zeugen 216
1.5 Familie 1006 217
1.6 Zwischenfazit 218
2 Das Phänomen des ‚geteilten Mehrheitstextes‘ 219
2.1 Geteilte Mehrheit in anderen Schriften des NT 219
2.2 Geteilte Mehrheit nach Handschriftengruppen 220
2.3 Häufigkeit der geteilten Mehrheit 221
2.4 Die Nichtexistenz eines ‚byzantinischen Mehrheitstextes‘ 224
2.5 Uneinheitlichkeit des Andreas-Textes und Existenz weiterer Gruppen 226
3 Konsequenzen der speziellen Überlieferungssituation 229
3.1 Die Beziehungen der Hauptstämme zueinander 229
3.2 Gruppengrenzen und Mehrheitsdefinition 233
3.3 Spezielle Anforderungen an die genealogische Methodik 235
Ulrich B. Schmid: Editing the Apocalypse in the twenty-first century 240
1 The (edited) text of John’s Apocalypse 241
1.1 Erasmus 241
1.2 Complutensian Polyglotte and the Textus Receptus 242
1.3 Beyond the Textus Receptus 243
2 The text tradition of John’s Apocalypse when compared to the other parts of the NT 244
3 A digital edition of the Apocalypse 248
Scott Charlesworth: The Heavenly Jesus Reinterprets Daniel. The Apocalypse as Corrective for the Olivet Discourse 250
1 Eschatological Expectation in the Olivet Discourse 251
1.1 The Markan Eschatological Discourse 251
1.2 Matthean and Lukan Redaction 253
1.3 This Generation 259
2 Reinterpretation of Daniel in the Apocalypse 261
2.1 Interpretation of Daniel in the Olivet Discourse 261
2.2 Revelation that Corrects the Olivet Discourse 263
2.3 Time Periods and the “Time of the End” 265
2.4 “Great Tribulation” in the Apocalypse 266
2.5 The Apocalypse as the Unsealing of Daniel 270
Primary Sources 272
Old Testament 272
New Testament 272
Table of Handwritings 274
New Testament Papyri 275
Papyri 275
Early Christian Sources 276
Subject Index 280