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Names: St Demiana, Antonia, editor.
Title: Sahidic Coptic Leviticus : its manuscript witnesses and its text /edited by Antonia St Demiana.
Other titles: Bible. Leviticus. Coptic.
Description: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025 | Series: Texts and studies in Eastern Christianity, 2213-0039 ; volume 30 | "The present volume is based on the author's 2020 Macquarie University doctoral dissertation"–Acknowledgements. | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Summary: "Until recently, the Sahidic Old Testament has received little attention. In Sahidic Coptic Leviticus, Antonia St Demiana fully documents, for the first time, the manuscript evidence of Sahidic Coptic Leviticus and offers a full codicological investigation and reconstruction of its codices and fragments. By surveying the dispersed Sahidic Leviticus fragments and folios, codices formerly considered to be independent of one another are reconstructed and unified, and new Leviticus fragments are identified and virtually assigned to their original codices. A semi-diplomatic edition of the most complete witness of Sahidic Leviticus, MLM M566, with the variae lectiones from the other Sahidic Leviticus witnesses is provided with a critical apparatus and English translation. A commentary including an introductory textual study and translation analysis of the text is also presented. In addition, this volume offers new and conclusive observations on the nature of the Sahidic version of Leviticus, and the relationship between the text of Sahidic Leviticus and its Greek Vorlage"– Provided by publisher.
Identifiers: LCCN 2023040253 (print) | LCCN 2023040254 (ebook) | ISBN 9789004545885 (hardback ; acid-free paper) | ISBN 9789004545892 (e-book)
Subjects: LCSH: Bible. Leviticus–Commentaries. | Coptic manuscripts.
Classification: LCC BS1254.C67 S73 2025 (print) | LCC BS1254.C67 (ebook) | DDC 222/.13049–dc23/eng/20231018
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2023040253
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2023040254
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ISSN 2213-0039
ISBN 978-90-04-54588-5 (hardback)
ISBN 978-90-04-54589-2 (e-book)
DOI 10.1163/9789004545892
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