Paratext and Megatext as Channels of Jewish and Christian Traditions - The Textual Markers of Contextualization

This volume explores how religious traditions are channeled to new audiences by "textual" markers, such as annotations and prefaces, which inform their understanding, or by a second text that is designed to function in tandem with the first one.

About the author

A.A. den Hollander, Ph.D., is Professor at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands and Lecturer at the Free University, the Netherlands. He is the author of De Nederlandse Bijbelvertalingen/Dutch Translations of the Bible 1522-1545 (De Graaf Publishers, 1997).
U.B. Schmid, Ph.D., is Post-doc at the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom and Post-doc at the Free University, the Netherlands. He is the author of Marcion und sein Apostolos: Rekonstruktion und historische Einordnung der marcionitischen Paulusbriefausgabe (De Gruyter, 1995).
W.F. Smelik, is Lecturer at University College London, London, United Kingdom. He is the author of The Targum of Judges (Brill, 1995).

Product details

• Assisted by: August Den Hollander (Editor), Ulrich Schmid (Editor), Willem Smelik (Editor)
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.04.2003
• EAN: 9789004128828
• ISBN: 978-90-04-12882-8
• No. of pages: 220
• Dimensions: 164 mm x 249 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 543 g
• Series: Jewish and Christian Perspecti
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Judaism