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Book SynopsisStudies on the Intersection of Text, Paratext, and Reception brings together thirteen contributions from leading scholars in the fields of textual criticism, manuscript/paratextual research, and reception history. These fields have tended to operate in isolation, but recent years have seen a rise in valuable research being done at their multiple points of intersection. The contributors to this volume show the potential of such crossover work through, for example, exploring how paratextual features of papyri and minuscules give insight into their text; probing how scribal behaviors illumine textual transmission/restoration, and examining how colometry, inner-biblical references, and early church reading cultures may contribute to understanding canon formation. These essays reflect the contours of the scholarship of Dr. Charles E. Hill, to whom the volume is dedicated.
Trade Review“The volume impressively straddles a range of disciplinary specialisms while offering much to engage the more general NT scholar.” – Alison M. Jack, University of Edinburgh, in: Journal for the Study of the New Testament Booklist 2022 44.5, August 2022.
Table of ContentsPreface List of Figures and Tables Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Part 1 Text and Paratext 1 Punctuation and Paragraphs in P66 (P.Bod. II): Insights into Scribal Behavior Peter M. Head 2 The Text and Paratext of Minuscule GA 1424: Initial Observations Gregory R. Lanier and Moses Han 3 Marginal Paratexts in GA 2323: A Thirteenth-Century Witness to the Medieval Reception of Revelation Peter Malik 4 Writing and Writers in Ancient Mesopotamia: A Brief Sketch for New Testament Scholars J. Nicholas Reid 5 On Not Preferring the Shorter Reading: Matthew as a Test Case Peter J. Gurry 6 Codex Bezae as Repository Jennifer Knust and Tommy Wasserman 7 What Is a Text? The Linguistic Turn and Its Implications for New Testament Studies Stanley E. Porter Part 2 Text, Canon, and Reception 8 Second Peter 3:2, the Apostolate, and a Bi-covenantal Canon Michael J. Kruger 9 MasPsa and the Early History of the Hebrew Psalter: Notes on Canon and Text Peter J. Gentry 10 Problems with the Explicit Marking of Quotations in Translations and Scholarly Editions of the New Testament Peter J. Williams 11 Polycarp’s Teaching: The Reception and Development of Theology Paul Foster 12 A Neglected Reference to John the Elder as Bishop of Ephesus (Const. ap. 7.46.7) Richard Bauckham 13 The Acts of John within the Johannine Corpus James W. Barker A Bibliography of the Works of Charles E. Hill Indices
