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The first chapters: dividing the text of scripture in Codex Vaticanus and its predecessors

The first chapters: dividing the text of scripture in Codex Vaticanus and its predecessors
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ISBN 0198836023 (hardcover)
9780198836025 (hardcover)
Author Hill, Charles E. (Charles Evan) 1956-
Title The first chapters : dividing the text of scripture in Codex Vaticanus and its predecessors / C.E. Hill
Publisher Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2022
Physical desc. xviii, 488 pages ; illustrations ; 25 cm.
Note CB illustrations: p. 345, fig. 7.2 (BP X, f. 72)
Bibliography etc. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Prologue: 'In the book of Moses, at the bush' -- Part 1: The beginning of the chapter: the growth of book divisions and readers' reference vocabularies up to the fourth century. The first-century scribal setting -- A chapter vocabulary emerges -- Early systems of numbered 'chapter' divisions -- Part 2: The first chapters: Codex Vaticanus at the dawn of capitulation. Introducing Codex Vaticanus -- The 'first chapters' as original to the codex -- Overview of text articulation and numeration in Codex Vaticanus -- Part 3: Behind the first chapters: the Capitulatio Vaticana and its predecessors. The Capitulatio Vaticana and its predecessors in the Old Testament -- The Capitulatio Vaticana and its predecessors in the New Testament -- Conclusion and conversation starters -- Epilogue: The triumph, retreat, and revival of the Bible's first chapters.
Subject Biblioteca apostolica vaticana -- Manuscript -- Vat. Gr. 1209
Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- BP X
Bible -- New Testament -- Manuscripts -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
Manuscripts, Greek
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