Invisible Manuscripts : Textual Scholarship and the Survival of 2 Baruch

In this critical exploration of the role of manuscripts in textual scholarship, Liv Ingeborg Lied studies the Syriac manuscript transmission of 2 Baruch. These manuscripts emerge as salient sources to the long life of 2 Baruch among Syriac speaking Christians, not merely witnesses to an early Jewish...

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Main Author: Lied, Liv Ingeborg (auth)
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Published: 2021
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