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Historisch-philologischer Kommentar zur Chronik des Johannes Malalas

• Germany
• Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
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The work attributed to John Malalas was compiled in the 6th AD as a universal chronicle – an outline of the history of the world from Adam up to the author’s own time. Little is known about the author himself, of whom we have no trace outside his work. If it is at all possible to infer any biographical details from the chronicle, he must have lived in Antioch (present-day Antakya, Turkey) under…

AGATE-ID: PR94

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Novum Testamentum Graecum. Editio Critica Maior

• Germany
• North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts
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Texts from the New Testament are preserved in their Greek original language in approx. 5500 manuscripts. It can be assumed that actually no copy is identical with another. Thus, the most important task of the text research of the New Testament is the reconstruction of the text form, which was the starting point for the transmission.

So far, the science had to use “Große Ausgaben” (big editions)…

AGATE-ID: PR119

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