Manuscripts, Texts, Theology

David C. Parker is one of the world's foremost specialists in New Testament textual research. This volume brings together his most important short writings on the topic in a revised and updated version. They cover studies of individual manuscripts and groups and analyses of textual problems, assessments of editions, as well as discussions of passages where the New Testament text is uncertain, and of the wider exegetical and theological significance of the passages.

Autorentext

David C. Parker, University of Birmingham, U.K.

Zusammenfassung

David C. Parker is one of the world's foremost specialists in the study of the New Testament text and of Greek and Latin manuscripts. In addition to editions, monographs and more popular writings, he has published many articles on different aspects of textual criticism. This volume brings together twentyfive of them in a revised and updated version.
The collection is divided into three topics. The first deals with manuscript studies. As well as three very different studies of Codex Bezae, there are articles and reports on individual manuscripts and classes of manuscripts and reports on visits to libraries. The second section has the theme of textual criticism. It includes broader studies dealing with the theory of the discipline and more detailed discussions of particular problems, including translations into Latin, techniques for grouping Greek manuscripts, and the comparison of modern editions. The third section contains papers in which Parker has discussed the often overlooked relationship between textual criticism and theology. These studies explore particular textual problems and their wider significance, and cover topics as varied as Jesus and Textual Criticism, Calvin's Biblical Text and The Early Tradition of Jesus' Sayings on Divorce.