Contents
Contents
Preface
List of Figures and Tables
Abbreviations
Contributors
Introduction: Paratextual Features of Early Greek Manuscripts
Stanley E. Porter, Chris S. Stevens, and David I. Yoon
1 What Is Paratext? In Search of an Elusive Category
Stanley E. Porter
2 Missing the Point: Modern Punctuation Practice as Authoritative but Possibly Problematic Decision-Making
Hans Förster
3 Pointers to Persons and Pericopes? A Study of the Intermarginal Signs in Sahidic Manuscripts of the Gospel of John
Matthias H. O. Schulz
4 But for Me, the Scriptures are Jesus Christ (Ι̅Ϲ̅ Χ̅Ϲ̅; Ign. Phld. 8:2). Creedal Text-Coding and the Early Scribal System of Nomina Sacra
Tomas Bokedal
5 Segmentation and Interpretation of Early Pauline Manuscripts
S. Matthew Solomon
6 Can Papyri Correspondence Help Us to Understand Paul's "Large Letters" in Galatians?
William Varner
7 The Tradition and Development of the Subscriptions to 1 Timothy
Tommy Wasserman and Linnea Thorp
8 Second Timothy: When and Where? Text and Traditions in the Subscriptions
Conrad Thorup Elmelund and Tommy Wasserman
9 Composite Citations in New Testament Greek Manuscripts
Sean A. Adams and Seth M. Ehorn
10 Titus in P32 and Early Majuscules: Textual Reliability and Scribal Design
Chris S. Stevens
11 The Scribal Use of Ekthesis as a Paragraph Marker? The Galatians Text in Codex Sinaiticus as a Test Case
David I. Yoon
12 Miniature Codices in Early Christianity
Michael J. Kruger
13 Marginalia in New Testament Greek Papyri: Implications for Scribal Practice and Textual Transmission
Michael P. Theophilos
Conclusion: Paratextual Features: Summary and Prospects
Stanley E. Porter, Chris S. Stevens, and David I. Yoon
