From Scribal Error to Rewriting: How (Sacred) Texts May and May Not Be Changed

Even when studying later phases of textual history, the scholarly interest is often directed towards the primary form of the text. This symposium, however, aims at focusing on secondary forms:

1. Describing the variety of these forms, specifying each of them, and defining adequate terminology for these specifications (e.g. scribal error, scribal change, recension, redaction, edition, rewriting);

2. Defining the motives, goals and limits of different kinds of changes in textual transmission;

3. Comparing different philological and theological traditions of  various epochs and identifying similarities as well as differences in their approaches to textual transmission (including that of the Holy Scriptures).