10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «OPISTHOGRAPH»
Discover the use of
opisthograph in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
opisthograph and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Collected Biblical Writings of T.C. Skeat
But to revert to the saving of half the amount of papyrus, could not this be more
simply effected by writing on both sides of the roll—what is commonly called an
opisthograph roll? This would reduce the length of our imaginary roll from 120 ...
Theodore Cressy Skeat, James Keith Elliott,
2004
2
Encountering New Testament Manuscripts: A Working ...
Opisthograph and Palimpsest §21. In the case of a roll it was usually only the
inner surface c23 that carried the writing, except perhaps for address, title, or
other small item, on the back. Sometimes, however, both sides were used, Some
and ...
3
The Encyclopedia of New Testament Textual Criticism:
An opisthograph is a writing written on the back of another writing. (For obvious
reasons, opisthographs are written on the back of scrolls, not codices.) It was not
a popular form for books; the back side of a scroll was not particularly easy to use
...
4
Transmission and Reception: New Testament Text-critical and ...
457), which exhibits diaeresis and curious spaces that seem to register clauses,
places where the “public” readers were possibly intended to make small pauses.
22 an opisthograph written on the reverse side of a land register. 9 E.g., P.Oxy.
Jeff W. Childers, David C. Parker,
2006
5
The Earliest Christian Artifacts: Manuscripts and Christian ...
call an “opisthograph,” a roll that was originally used to accommodate one text (
on the inner, “recto” side), and then subsequently reused to accommodate
another text copied on the outer (verso) side. In chapter two we shall look more
closely ...
6
Journal of Biblical Literature
The one mysterious and yet significant clue in its description is the fact that the
writer calls it an opisthograph.10 To ascertain the precise character of the scroll
both as to its content and use one must necessarily find out what type of literature
...
7
A Commentary on the Apocalypse of John
This is an opisthograph: a scroll with writing both on the inside — the front face
when it is open — and the outside — the back face. As the scroll is sealed, and
must therefore be rolled, it is not quite clear how John can see that it has writing
on ...
8
The Genre of the Book of Revelation from a Source-critical ...
It is in Yahweh's hand, it is rolled up, it is an opisthograph, and it appears hard on
the heels of the throne scene. It may well be objected at this point that Eze does
not state that the scroll is sealed. This is true. Nevertheless, a more important ...
Frederick David Mazzaferri,
1989
9
Culture In Pieces: Essays on Ancient Texts in Honour of ...
'Opisthograph', like 'paraklausithyron', is a word far more familiar to modern
scholars than it can ever have been in antiquity; it was not a regular format for
literature. The currency of the term is due to the younger Pliny (Ep. 3. 5. 17), who
uses it ...
Dirk Obbink, Richard Rutherford,
2011
10
Ritual Purity and the Dead Sea Scrolls
Appearing on the verso of 4Q415 (4QInstructiona), 4Q414 is an opisthograph, or
document with writing on both sides; a relatively rare phenomenon at Qumran.
Despite the infrequent appearance of opisthographs, it is interesting to note that ...