Studi Slavistici XXII (2025) Special Issue
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Aims, Methods and Problems of Editing Church Slavonic Biblical Texts with Special Reference to the Psalter

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  • Catherine Mary MacRobert
Catherine Mary MacRobert
University of Oxford
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/Studi_Slavis-17774

Published 2025-12-12

Keywords

  • Critical Edition,
  • Reconstructive Edition,
  • Redactional Edition,
  • Variorum Edition,
  • Orientational Edition

Copyright (c) 2025 Catherine M. MacRobert

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Abstract

This paper argues that the classical reconstructive critical edition is not methodologically well suited to the textual tradition of the Church Slavonic Psalter, which has been subject to repeated linguistic revision and correction against its Greek original.  It reviews alternative possibilities, such as critical reconstruction of specific redactions or variorum editions which locate a particular copy or redaction within the wider context of related versions, and suggests instances in which these approaches have been or could be usefully be deployed.
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