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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: erotic life of manuscripts
    sub title: New Testament textual criticism and the biological sciences
  name:
    name part: Lin, Yii-Jan
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  genre: Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  genre: Manuscripts
  genre: Trivia and miscellanea
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2016
    copyright date: 2016
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xiv, 204 pages)
  abstract: "The Erotic Life of Manuscripts explores the curious relationship between the field of New Testament textual criticism and the biological sciences, beginning in the eighteenth century and extending to the present"--
  abstract: "Since the New Testament's inception as written text, its manuscripts have been subject to all the dangers of history: scribal error, emendation, injury, and total destruction. The traditional goal of modern textual criticism has been to reconstruct an "original text" from surviving manuscripts, adjudicating among all the variant texts resulting from the slips, additions, and embellishments of scribal hand-copying. Because of the way manuscripts circulate and give rise to new copies, it can be said that they have an "erotic" life: they mate and breed, bear offspring, and generate families and descendants. The Erotic Life of Manuscripts explores this curious relationship between the field of New Testament textual criticism and the biological sciences, beginning in the eighteenth century and extending into the present. New Testament textual critics who used language to group texts into families and genealogies were not pioneering new approaches, but rather borrowing the metaphors and methods of natural scientists. Texts began to be classified into "families, tribes, and nations," and later were racialized as "African" or "Asian," with distinguishable "textual physiognomies" and "textual complexions." These genealogies would later be traced to show the inheritance of "corruptions" and "contamination" through generations, an understanding of textual diversity reflective of eighteenth- and ninteenth-century European anxieties over racial corruption and degeneration. While these biological metaphors have been powerful tools for textual critics, they also produce problematic understandings of textual "purity" and agency, with the use of scientific discourse artificially separating the work of textual criticism from literary interpretation. Yii-Jan Lin traces the use of metaphors and methods from the biological sciences by New Testament textual critics to show how the use of biological classification, genealogy, evolutionary theory, and phylogenetics has shaped--and limited…
  table of contents: Part I: Collection and theorization -- Bengel and the classification and racializiation of texts -- Lachmann and the genealogy and corruption of texts -- Part II: Historicization and innovation -- Darwin, Streeter, and narrative textual criticism -- Philology and phylogeny -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1: Excerpt of interview with Gerd Mink and Klaus Wachtel, Institut für Neutestamentliche Textforschung, Münster, March 10, 2011 -- Appendix 2: "Marcus Niebuhr Tod," by Maurice Bowra.
  note: Yii-Jan Lin.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    title info:
      title: Bible
      part name: New Testament
    topic: Criticism, Textual
  subject:
    title info:
      title: Bible
      part name: New Testament
    topic: Manuscripts
  subject:
    title info:
      title: Bible
      part name: New Testament
  subject:
    topic: Metaphor in the Bible
  subject:
    topic: Biology
    topic: Miscellanea
  subject:
    topic: Métaphore dans la Bible
  subject:
    topic: Biologie
    topic: Miscellanées
  subject:
    topic: RELIGION
    topic: Biblical Studies
    topic: New Testament
  subject:
    topic: Biology
  subject:
    topic: Metaphor in the Bible
  classification: BS2525
  classification: 225.6
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    title info:
      title: Erotic Life of Manuscripts : New Testament Textual Criticism and the Biological Sciences
    name:
      name part: Lin, Yii-Jan.
    origin info:
      publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, ©2015
  identifier: 9780190279813
  identifier: 0190279818
  identifier: 9780190279820
  identifier: 0190279826
  identifier: 019027980X
  identifier: 9780190279806
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    record content source: N$T
    record creation date: 151102
    record change date: 20260319161534.3
    record identifier: in00005712650
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng