TC of the Coptic resurrection narratives
- New book:
"Koptische Zeugen der Auferstehungsberichte"
by Christina M. Kreinecker
de Gruyter, 2008
Series: Arbeiten zur neutestamentlichen Textforschung ; 39
"The present volume is devoted to the Coptic tradition of New Testament
accounts of the Resurrection (Mt 28,1-8; Mk 16,1-8; Lk 24,1-12; Joh 20,1-10
together with the oldest witness to the Resurrection in 1Cor 15,3-5). In it,
a comprehensive text-critical apparatus includes nearly all Sahidic
manuscripts at present available, most of them unedited, and the textual
variants are presented, provided with a commentary and divided into groups.
A second stage contrasts and compares the propositions in the Greek and
Coptic texts to discover syntactic differences between them and comment on
these; here, dependency grammar is applied to the Coptic language for the
first time. Particular attention is paid here to the rendering of Greek
verbs in Coptic. It is the aim of this volume to present the Coptic versions
of the Resurrection accounts on a scale hitherto unmatched, and apart from
establishing textual variants within the Coptic texts to identify those
syntactic differences from the Greek texts which cannot simply be traced
back to the translation process."
The text is in German, but most of the material are tables etc. and should
be understood with a little effort. I think the most important part is the
careful comparison of the Coptic with the Greek text. Interesting stuff!
Wieland Willker, Bremen, Germany