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Ausgabe:

September/2022

Spalte:

808–809

Kategorie:

Neues Testament

Autor/Hrsg.:

Goldmann, Alexander

Titel/Untertitel:

Über die Textgeschichte des Römerbriefs. Neue Perspektiven aus dem paratextuellen Befund.

Verlag:

Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto Verlag 2020. 254 S. m. Abb. u. Tab. = Texte und Arbeiten zum neutestamentlichen Zeitalter, 63. Kart. EUR 98,00. ISBN 9783772087097.

Rezensent:

J. K. Elliott

Any monograph or thesis (as this book once was) with a title like this must include the doxology and benediction in Romans, as is to be found in modern editions of the Bible. This book is no exception. It is based on an up-to-date New Testament that is true not only to the text itself but also to the parallel texts as referred to in the sub-title too. My own attempts to look at the language and style of these endings occurred in ZNW 72 in 1981.

This book is particularly useful for those whose interests are in Pauline exegesis. The book claims (correctly) to be »grundstürzend«. It is easy to read and has many a Tabelle, Schema (and a Substemma) and Abbildung and other interruptions that serve to break up the textual writing proper (even if only an Abbildungsverzeichnis is listed on 231), though not all of them are easily read nor necessarily subtitled (e. g. 205); not all of them are even correct (e. g. 207).

However, as a consequence of the parallels and Marcion’s own commentary (and especially G.’s use of the (»Old« Latin) listings and the Capitula to Paul’s Letter to the Romans in Codices Amiatinus and Regalis), it is duly argued that the 10-volume edition of the second-century corpus and not the later 14 volume corpus (that includes both the so-called Pastoral Letters and allegedly Paul’s »letter« to the Hebrews) this 10-volume edition is the earlier, albeit obviously non-Pauline, but nonetheless »canonical« original. What will ECM do? (The Anhaenge which contain these references to the two codices are to be found, one assumes, on (the un-numbered) pages 246–301).

Typographical slips and other errata, especially concerning names (even German ones!) in footnotes and in the bibliography, need attention, especially should a reprint ever be proposed.