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The creation of a fourth-century witness to the andreas text type: A misreading in the apocalypse's textual history

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Article

Abstract

The publication of Josef Schmid's landmark work on the textual history of the Apocalypse seemingly established the Andreas Text Type as a fourth-century product. The primary evidence for Schmid's claim came from the fourth-century corrections of the Apocalypse in Codex Sinaiticus, corrections which bore a close resemblance to the Andreas text of the Apocalypse. Schmid's reconstruction, however, is flawed. The fourth-century corrections he identified are actually from the seventh century. The data supporting a fourth-century Andreas text type does not exist. Schmid's widely influential error appears to have been based on a misreading of Milne and Skeat's Scribes and Correctors of the Codex Sinaiticus. Copyright © 2014 Cambridge University Press.

Department(s)

Biblical and Theological Studies

Publication Title

New Testament Studies

Volume

60

Issue

1

First Page

106

Last Page

120

Publication Date

1-1-2014

DOI

10.1017/S0028688513000271

ISSN

00286885

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