Studies on the Text of the New Testament and Early Christianity : Essays in Honour of Michael W. Holmes.

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Abbreviations -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Part 1 Text Criticism -- Chapter 1 The Late Constantin Tischendorf and Codex Sinaiticus: New Testament Textual Criticism without Them-An Exercise in Erasure History -- Chapter 2 Patristic Evidence in the Apparatus Criticus of a Greek New Testament -- Chapter 3 Nestle-Aland 28 and the Revision of the Apocalypse's Textual History -- Chapter 4 The Edition of the Greek New Testament: A Plea and a Challenge -- Chapter 5 Codex 2193 and Family 1 in Mark -- Chapter 6 Water and Blood and Matthew 27:49: A Johannine Reading in the Matthean Passion Narrative? -- Chapter 7 Of Fish and Men: Comparative, Text-Critical and Papyrological Remarks on Matthew 13:47-50 and the Gospel of Thomas 8 -- Chapter 8 The Son's Ignorance in Matthew 24:36: An Exercise in Textual and Redaction Criticism -- Chapter 9 A Fresh Analysis of P.Oxyrhynchus 1228 ( 22) as Artefact -- Chapter 10 Rightly Dividing the Word: Uncovering an Early Template for Textual Division in John's Gospel -- Chapter 11 Asterius "the Sophist" of Cappadocia: Citations from the Gospel of John as Attested in the Theological Fragments -- Chapter 12 A Text-Critical Examination of the Johannine Variation -- Chapter 13 The Selection of Greek Manuscripts to be Included in the International Greek New Testament Project's Edition of John in the Editio Critica Maior -- Chapter 14 A Longer Text of Paul: Romans to Galatians in Codex Wernigerodensis (VL 58) -- Chapter 15 A Short Textual Commentary on Galatians -- Chapter 16 The Text of Galatians 4:25a -- Chapter 17 On the Marcionite Prologues to the Letters of Paul -- Part 2 Early Christianity -- Chapter 18 Polycarp in the Writings of Ignatius -- Chapter 19 The Devil's in the Details: The Apocalyptic "Adversary" in the Martyrdom of Polycarp and the Martyrs of Lyons.

Chapter 20 The Old Testament in the Apostolic Fathers -- Chapter 21 "Witnesses between You and Us": The Role of the Letter-Carriers in 1 Clement -- Chapter 22 Defining Exceptions in the Didache -- Chapter 23 Space, Body, and Church in Ignatius of Antioch: Toward a Spatial Treatment -- Chapter 24 Living as a "Christian": Christian Ethos According to the Writings of Ignatius of Antioch -- Chapter 25 Scripture and Christology in the Preaching of Peter (Kerygma Petri) -- Chapter 26 On "Rotten Stones" and a Couple of Other Marginalia in the Shepherd of Hermas -- Chapter 27 Anima naturaliter Christiana - Beobachtungen zum philosophischen und theologischen Hintergrund der Seelenlehre Tertullians -- Bibliography: Michael W. Holmes -- Bibliography -- Index of Modern Authors -- Index of Subjects -- Index of Citations.

A collection of essays in honour of Prof. Michael Holmes. The volume is arranged in two parts focusing on textual criticism and the Apostolic Fathers respectively.

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