The Early Text of the New Testament

by Hill, Charles E.; Kruger, Michael J.

• ISBN13: 9780199566365
• ISBN10: 0199566364
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-09-07
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

The Early Text of the New Testamentaims to examine and assess from our earliest extant sources the most primitive state of the New Testament text now known. What sort of changes did scribes make to the text? What is the quality of the text now at our disposal? What can we learn about the nature of textual transmission in the earliest centuries? In addition to exploring the textual and scribal culture of early Christianity, this volume explores the textual evidence for all the sections of the New Testament. It also examines the evidence from the earliest translations of New Testament writings and the citations or allusions to New Testament texts in other early Christian writers.

Author Biography

Michael J. Kruger (Ph.D. University of Edinburgh) is Professor of New Testament at Reformed Theological Seminary, Charlotte, NC and is the author of the Gospel of the Savior: An Analysis of P.Oxy. 840 and its Place in the Gospel Traditions of Early Christianity (Brill, 2005) and co-author of Gospel Fragments (Oxford, 2009).



Charles E. Hill (Ph.D. Cambridge University) is Professor of New Testament at Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando, Florida. His other books include Regnum Caelorum: Patterns of Future Hope in Early Christianity and The Johannine Corpus in the Early Church, both published by Oxford University Press, and From the Lost Teaching of Polycarp: Identifying Irenaeus' Apostolic Presbyter and the Author of ad Diognetum published by J. C. B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck).

Table of Contents

Introduction: In Search of the Earliest Text of the New Testament

The Textual and Scribal Culture of Early Christianity

The Book Trade in the Roman Empire

Indicators of Catholicity in Early Gospel Manuscripts

Towards a Sociology of Reading in Early Christianity

Early Christian Attitudes towards the Reproduction of Texts

The Manuscript Tradition

The Early Text of Matthew

The Early Text of Mark

The Early Text of Luke

The Early Text of John

The Early Text of Acts

The Early Text of Paul (and Hebrews)

The Early Text of the Catholic Epistles

The Early Text of Revelation

Where Two or Three Are Gathered Together: Evaluating Agreements between Two or More Early Versions

Early Citation/Use of New Testament Writings

In These Very Words: Methods and Standards of Literary Borrowing in the Second Century

The Text of the New Testament in the Apostolic Fathers

Marcion and the Early Text of the New Testament

Justin's Text of the Gospels. Another Look at the Citations in 1 Apol. 15.1-8

Tatian's Diatessaron and the Greek Text of the Gospels

Early Apocryphal Gospels and the New Testament Text

Irenaeus's Text of the Gospels in Adversus haereses

Clement of Alexandria's Gospel Citations

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