- Contents (page 5)
- Foreword by D.C. Parker (page 7)
- Abbreviations (page 10)
- Part one: Studies (page 15)
- The Oxford Debate on the Textual Criticism of the New Testament, Held at New College on May 6, 1897: An End, Not a Beginning, for the Textus Receptus by J.L. North (page 17)
- Beyond the Interlude? Developments and Directions in New Testament Textual Criticism by L.W. Hurtado (page 42)
- I. Renewed Interest and Activity (page 43)
- II. Work that Points Ahead (page 49)
- 1. Thorough Examination of Important Witness (page 50)
- 2. Better Knowledge of Scribal Habits (page 52)
- 3. The Crucial Second Century (page 53)
- 4. Wider Historical Inquiry (page 59)
- 5. Computerisation (page 62)
- Conclution (page 64)
- The Syriac Evidence for the 'Pre-Johannine Text' of the Gospel: A Study in Method by J.W. Childers (page 65)
- Introduction (page 65)
- Boismard's Contribution to Our Knowledge of HJn (page 67)
- Critique of Boismard's Use of the Syriac (page 69)
- The General Textual Affiliation of the Syriac HJn (page 77)
- Boismard's Theory about the Multi-Stage Development of the Syriac Text (page 80)
- A. Boismard's Position (page 80)
- B. External Syriac Evidence and the Date of the Translation (page 83)
- C. Internal Syriac Evidence (page 85)
- 1. The Dislocated Paragraph in Homily 16 (page 85)
- a) The Greek and Syriac Text (page 85)
- b) The Distinct Text and thir Interrelationships (page 89)
- c) The Translation Style of the Dislocated Paragraph (page 92)
- 2. Old Syriac Citation and the 'First' Translation (page 96)
- Conclusions (page 98)
- The Construction of Biblical Certainty: Textual Optimism and the United Bible Societies Greek New Testament by K.D. Clarke and K. Bales (page 102)
- 1. A Brief History of the United Bible Societies' Greek New Testament (page 102)
- 2. A Numerical Survey of the USB Letter-Ratings (page 104)
- 3. Variants that have been Newly Added or Dropped Out of the USB (page 106)
- 4. The United Bible Societies' Explanation for the Letter-Rating Upgrades (page 107)
- 5. Conclusion (page 108)
- Using Probability Theory as a Key to Unlock Textual History by G.P. Farthing (page 110)
- Orientation (page 110)
- Unique Irreversible Changes (page 111)
- Non-Unique Reversible Changes (page 113)
- Possibility and Probability (page 117)
- A Reminder of Simple Probability Theory (page 118)
- Copying Described as a System of Probabilities (page 119)
- Distinguishing Possible Stemmata by Frequency of Manuscript Combinations (page 124)
- An Example Using Real Data (page 126)
- Part two: Texts (page 135)
- The Significance of Non-Continuous New Testament Textual Materials in Papyri by S.R. Pickering (page 137)
- Classification According to Writing Material (page 137)
- Classification According to Content (page 138)
- The Catalogue of van Haelst; the Repetorium of the Minister Insititut (page 139)
- A Neglected Body of Evidence (page 140)
- The Value of the Evidence (page 140)
- Collecting, Presenting, and Evaluating the Non-Continuous Evidence (page 145)
- Textual and Historical Contrbution of the Non-Continuous Materials on Papyrus (page 154)
- Conclusion (page 155)
- Appendix (page 157)
- The Relevance of Literary Criticism for the Text of the New Testament. A Study of Mark's Traditions on John the Baptist by E. Guting (page 158)
- 2. Glosses in Mark 1:2-3 (page 162)
- 2.1 Textual Evidence (page 162)
- 2.2 Lachmann's Critique of the Traditional Insertion of vv. 2 and 3 into the Text of Mark (page 168)
- 2.3 The Syntax of the First Sentence of Mark's Gospel (page 170)
- 2.4 The Source of the Secondary Quotatons in Mark 1:2f (page 176)
- 2.5 Final Control: A Gloss Impairs Mark's Narrative Design (page 179)
- Summary (page 182)
- The Beatitudes of 'The Mourning' and 'The Weeping': Matthew 5:4 and Luke 6:21B by T. Baarda (page 184)
- 1. Introduction (page 184)
- I. Luke 6:21b: Its Place and Form in Tatian's Harmony (page 185)
- A. The Eastern Diatessaron (page 185)
- 2. The last reconstruction (page 185)
- 3. The earliest reconstruction (page 187)
- 4. The hypothesis of Plooij, 1923 (page 188)
- 5. The contribution of Aphrahat (page 189)
- 6. The reconstruction of Leloir 1962 (page 190)
- 8. A riddle in the Syriac text of Ephraem (page 192)
- 7. The newly found Syriac text (page 191)
- 9. The place of Mt 5:4 and Lk 6:21b (page 193)
- 10. The form of Lk 6:21b in the Syriac Diatessaron (page 194)
- B The Western Diatessaron (page 196)
- 11. Introduction (page 196)
- 12. The Latin and Italian Diatessaron (page 197)
- 13. The Middle Dutch and Middle German Harmonies (page 197)
- 14. Further proof in the Old High German? (page 199)
- 15. Conclustion (page 200)
- II. Matthew 5:4: Its Form in the Diatessaron (page 200)
- 16. The allusion of Aphrahat (page 200)
- 17. The text in the Evangelion da-Mepharreshe (page 201)
- 18. Reappraisal of the allusion of Aphrahat (page 202)
- 19. Comparable renderings in Lk 6:25, 2:25, and 16:25 (page 203)
- 20. Conclution (page 206)
- The Dura-Europos Gospel Harmony by D.C. Parker, D.G.K. Taylor, and M.S. Goodacre (page 208)
- 1. Introduction (page 208)
- Description (page 209)
- The History of Investigation (page 210)
- Date, Palaeographical Comments, and Context (page 210)
- Method of Analysis (page 215)
- 2. Reconstruction of the Text (page 216)
- Reconstruction of 0212 (page 216)
- Translation of 0212 (page 217)
- Commentary on the Reconstruction (page 217)
- Lines 3 and 12 (page 221)
- Lines 5-6 (page 221)
- Lines 10-11 (page 222)
- 3. The Nomina Sacra (page 222)
- 4. Is 0212 a Translation from Syriac? (page 225)
- Are there Syriacisms? (page 225)
- Does 0212 contain readings derived from a Syriac Vorlage? (page 230)
- 5. The Reconstruction of Tatian's Text of this Passage, and a Comparison with 0212 (page 232)
- 6. The Greek Text of the Gospels Represented by 0212 (page 241)
- 7. Conclusions (page 244)
- Where is Emmaus? Clues in the Text of Luke 24 in Codex Bezae by J. Read-Heimerdinger (page 245)
- A Theological Key (page 249)
- Conclusions (page 259)
- La Utilizacion del Libro de Joel (JL2,28-32A LXX) en el Discurso de Pedro (HCH 2,14-21): Estudio Comparativo de dos Tradicionse Manuscritas by J. Riu-Camps (page 261)
- 1. Encabezamiento del Discurso de Pedro (page 264)
- 2. Primera Parte del Discurso de Pedro (page 267)
- 3. Actualización de la Profecía de Joel (page 269)
- Conclusiones (page 274)
- Sinopsis (page 277)
- Aparato Crítico (page 282)
- English Summary (page 284)
- Conclusions (page 286)
- Index of Biblical Citations (page 287)
- Index of Modern Authors (page 293)
