"During the Middle Byzantine period (8th-11th century) the Gospel lectionary emerged as one of th... more "During the Middle Byzantine period (8th-11th century) the Gospel lectionary emerged as one of the most venerated liturgical codices of the Byzantine Church. However, the lectionary has been a neglected primary source in New Testament textual criticism. In this thesis I assess the textual value of the lectionary tradition as a witness to the Greek New Testament and in the process develop a multi-disciplinary methodology for lectionary research. My textual analysis is based on the examination of 126 Greek Gospel lectionaries at 44 selected test passages from the Gospel of John, the data of which appears in the appendix. I places the lectionaries in their Byzantine context, analyse the lectionary evidence as documents, outline the textual and paratextual variation that the lectionary tradition exhibits, arrange the lectionaries into genealogical groups, and investigate the relationship between the lectionary tradition and the continuous text manuscript tradition.”
Comments of PhD Examiners
“Jordan’s thesis presents, after decades of an almost neglect of lectionary evidence in textual criticism of the New Testament, an all-encompassing new methodical approach to this field of study.”
“...apart from textual data, we find a wealth of manuscript data (from palaeography, codicology, art history and the history of liturgy) geared at integrated reflections on the life-cycle and historic embedding (production and use) of the objects that are studied.”
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"During the Middle Byzantine period (8th-11th century) the Gospel lectionary emerged as one of th... more "During the Middle Byzantine period (8th-11th century) the Gospel lectionary emerged as one of the most venerated liturgical codices of the Byzantine Church. However, the lectionary has been a neglected primary source in New Testament textual criticism. In this thesis I assess the textual value of the lectionary tradition as a witness to the Greek New Testament and in the process develop a multi-disciplinary methodology for lectionary research. My textual analysis is based on the examination of 126 Greek Gospel lectionaries at 44 selected test passages from the Gospel of John, the data of which appears in the appendix. I places the lectionaries in their Byzantine context, analyse the lectionary evidence as documents, outline the textual and paratextual variation that the lectionary tradition exhibits, arrange the lectionaries into genealogical groups, and investigate the relationship between the lectionary tradition and the continuous text manuscript tradition.”
Comments of PhD Examiners
“Jordan’s thesis presents, after decades of an almost neglect of lectionary evidence in textual criticism of the New Testament, an all-encompassing new methodical approach to this field of study.”
“...apart from textual data, we find a wealth of manuscript data (from palaeography, codicology, art history and the history of liturgy) geared at integrated reflections on the life-cycle and historic embedding (production and use) of the objects that are studied.”
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Comments of PhD Examiners
“Jordan’s thesis presents, after decades of an almost neglect of lectionary evidence in textual criticism of the New Testament, an all-encompassing new methodical approach to this field of study.”
“...apart from textual data, we find a wealth of manuscript data (from palaeography, codicology, art history and the history of liturgy) geared at integrated reflections on the life-cycle and historic embedding (production and use) of the objects that are studied.”
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Comments of PhD Examiners
“Jordan’s thesis presents, after decades of an almost neglect of lectionary evidence in textual criticism of the New Testament, an all-encompassing new methodical approach to this field of study.”
“...apart from textual data, we find a wealth of manuscript data (from palaeography, codicology, art history and the history of liturgy) geared at integrated reflections on the life-cycle and historic embedding (production and use) of the objects that are studied.”
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