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Erik Thaddeus Walters
Unitas in Latin Antiquity
Four Centuries of Continuity
Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles,
New York, Oxford, Wien, 2011 . 220 pp ., 4 graphs
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ollowing a survey of 20th century scholarship’s
various interpretations of unitas
as employed by the mid-3rd century CE’s
Cyprian of Carthage, this volume introduces
an innovative hermeneutic that utilizes a
contextual analysis of all 233 instances of the
term meaning «oneness/unity» in extant
Latin literature’s Pagan and ante-Nicene Christian
authors from the 1st century BCE through
the early 4th century CE . A synthesis subsequently
is rendered possible, and continuity
in the term’s meaning without change, confusion,
or contradiction remains a hallmark .
Clinton S . Baldwin
The So-Called Mixed Text
An Examination
of the Non-Alexandrian
and Non-Byzantine Text-Type
in the Catholic Epistles
New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main,
Oxford, Wien, 2011 . XVI, 248 pp ., num . tables
Studies in Biblical Literature . Vol . 133
General Editor: Hemchand Gossai
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n recent years, a number of scholars
have identified a text-type in six of the
books of the Catholic Epistles that they have
called «mixed .» The So-Called Mixed Text:
An Examination of the Non-Alexandrian and
Non-Byzantine Text-Type in the Catholic Epistles
is concerned with a comprehensive identification
and evaluation of this so-called
mixed text-type . This mixed category, if supported
by empirical investigation to be more
original than the Alexandrian and Byzantine
texts, could necessitate the re-evaluation
of these established text-types and also
the re-evaluation of the designation «mixed»
attributed to this group .
In pursuit of this objective, Clinton S .
Baldwin undertakes an in-depth study of this
mixed phenomenon by studying 407 Greek
manuscripts of the Catholic Epistles . Having
identified 13 mixed groups across the Catholic
Epistles, it is shown that the weighted
value of this mixed category is negligible in
terms of uncovering the earliest originals .
Also of significance to this study is the use
of factor analysis for the classification of New
Testament Greek manuscripts . The reliability
of factor analysis is demonstrated by another
vital contribution of this study: the
classification of the manuscripts of the Epistle
of Jude, a book which hither-to-fore had
not been comprehensively classified . Most
of the manuscripts classified by factor analysis
have later been confirmed by a modified
form of the Claremont Profile Method . Fi-
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Stacie Raucci
Elegiac Eyes
Vision in Roman Love Elegy
legiac Eyes is an in-depth examination
of vision and spectacle in Roman love
elegy . It approaches vision from the perspective
of Roman cultural modes of viewing and
locates its analysis in close textual readings
of Tibullus, Propertius, and Ovid . The paradoxical
nature of the Roman eyes, which according
to contemporary optical theories
were able to penetrate and be penetrated, as
well as the complex role of vision in society,
provided the elegists with a productive can-
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nally, The So-Called Mixed Text demonstrates
that the evolution of the New Testament text,
which began in the earlier centuries, continued
into the Middle Ages .
Clinton s. BalDwin currently serves as
Founding Director of the Biblical Manuscript
Research Centre (BMRC) and is Assistant Professor
in the School of Religion and Theology
at Northern Caribbean University in
Mandeville, Jamaica . Dr . Baldwin received
his BA and his M .P .T . in religion and theology,
respectively, and his PhD in New Testament
studies, with special emphasis in New
Testament textual criticism) . Dr . Baldwin
has written several scholarly articles and is
the author of Justification by Faith: More Than
a Concept, a Person; Methods of Biblical Interpretation:
A New Perspective on Prophecy;
and, The Journey of the New Testament in Becoming
a Book: The Relevance of New Testament
Textual Criticism.
New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, Oxford, Wien, 2011 .
X, 173 pp .
Lang Classical Studies . Vol . 17
General Editor: Daniel H . Garrison
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vas for their poems . By locating the elegists’
visual games within their contemporary context,
Elegiac Eyes demonstrates how the elegists
were manipulating notions that were
specifically Roman and familiar to their readership
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staCie rauCCi is Assistant Professor of Classics
at Union College in Schenectady, New York .
She received her BA in Latin from Wellesley
College and her PhD in classical languages and
literatures from the University of Chicago .
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