Pericope.net
Title
Pericope Homepage
Description
Excerpted from the website:
- General information
- Originally 'pericope' was a Greek word which could designate a section or a passage in a text (Liddell-Scott). Later on it was mainly used for larger paragraphs as read in the church. Up to the present day the special sign ¶ is a common marker of paragraphs in books. 'Pericope' (pronunciation pe-'ri-ke-pE, see below) is a loose association of Bible scholars and Orientalists interested in the way texts were subdivided in antiquity. Just as in modern texts understanding is furthered (and limited) by spaces, interpunction, paragraphing, ruling, blank lines, headings, ornaments, illustrations, colours, writing styles and marginal notes, so it was in antiquity, as is testified by numerous manuscripts and inscriptions, some of them dating from centuries BCE. The strange thing is that at present most Bible translators, exegetes and Orientalists ignore this kind of evidence. One seeks in vain for it in most modern scholarly editions and commentaries. Instead almost everybody divides the ancient texts in accordance with her/his own understanding. This eclectic approach has resulted in an appalling diversity of opinion with regard to the structure of these ancient texts which in turn influences the way they are understood in modern times.
Additional Information
External Links
Categories:
- Accents
- Arie Van Der Kooij
- Bart Ehrman
- Bible
- Canticle
- Capital Letters
- Chapters
- Codex
- Codices
- Dead Sea Scrolls
- Delimitation Criticism
- Ekthesis
- Emanuel Tov
- Greek
- Hebrew Bible
- Johannes De Moor
- John Olley
- John Oswalt
- Josef Oesch
- Konrad Jenner
- Mansucripts
- Manuscript
- Marjo Korpel
- Masoretic
- New Testament
- Northwest Semitic
- Old Testament
- Papyri
- Papyrus
- Paragraph
- Paragraphing
- Paragraphos
- Paul Sanders
- Peshitta
- Peter Flint
- Petucha
- Petuchah
- Qumran
- Raymond De Hoop
- Reading
- Scribal
- Scribes
- Septuagint
- Setuma
- Setumah
- Spaces
- Spacing
- Stanley Porter
- Strophe
- Text Division
- Textual Criticism
- Tradition
- Unit
- Verse Line
- Vulgate
- Wido Van Peursen
- Writing