The Early Text of the New Testament

Abstract

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