基本説明
This book is about the transmission of the New Testament text in the second and third centuries of early Christianity. It explores the world of manuscripts, scribes, and early Christian textual culture.
Full Description
The Early Text of the New Testament aims 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.
Contents
Introduction: In Search of the Earliest Text of the New Testament ; I. THE TEXTUAL AND SCRIBAL CULTURE OF EARLY CHRISTIANITY ; 1. The Book Trade in the Roman Empire ; 2. Indicators of Catholicity in Early Gospel Manuscripts ; 3. Towards a Sociology of Reading in Early Christianity ; 4. Early Christian Attitudes towards the Reproduction of Texts ; II. THE MANUSCRIPT TRADITION ; 5. The Early Text of Matthew ; 6. The Early Text of Mark ; 7. The Early Text of Luke ; 8. The Early Text of John ; 9. The Early Text of Acts ; 10. The Early Text of Paul (and Hebrews) ; 11. The Early Text of the Catholic Epistles ; 12. The Early Text of Revelation ; 13. Where Two or Three Are Gathered Together: Evaluating Agreements between Two or More Early Versions ; III. EARLY CITATION/USE OF NEW TESTAMENT WRITINGS ; 14. In These Very Words: Methods and Standards of Literary Borrowing in the Second Century ; 15. The Text of the New Testament in the Apostolic Fathers ; 16. Marcion and the Early Text of the New Testament ; 17. Justin's Text of the Gospels. Another Look at the Citations in 1 Apol. 15.1-8 ; 18. Tatian's Diatessaron and the Greek Text of the Gospels ; 19. Early Apocryphal Gospels and the New Testament Text ; 20. Irenaeus's Text of the Gospels in Adversus haereses ; 21. Clement of Alexandria's Gospel Citations
