"A Clear Account of the Codex Simonideios:" Ideological Infrastructures of Biblical Vulnerability in the Nineteenth Century.
Soon after Constantin Tischendorf (1815–74) publicized his "discovery" of the Codex Sinaiticus, notorious manuscript broker (and forger) Konstantinos Simonides stunned elite literary circles by announcing that Simonides himself had produced this biblical codex in his youth as a gift for the Russian...
| Publicado en: | Philological Encounters Vol. 11; no. 1/2; pp. 94 - 111 |
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Brill Academic Publishers
2026
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