Codex Bezae An Early Christian Manuscript and Its Text

Name: Codex Bezae An Early Christian Manuscript and Its Text
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ISBN: 9780521400374

ISBN-10: 0521400376

ISBN-13: 9780521400374

Edition: 1992

Authors: D. C. Parker

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Codex Bezae is one of the most important primary sources in New Testament scholarship. Together with Codex Alexandrinus and Codex Vaticanus it represents one of our most significant links back to the early Church and its origins. Since its rediscovery in the sixteenth century, the riddles posed by its general appearance and its textual characteristics have continued to fascinate scholars, and David Parker here offers the first comprehensive study of Codex Bezae to appear for more than a century. This book aims to cast light on the story behind this most enigmatic of manuscripts. Fresh data are presented here which makes possible a reconstruction of the stages of copying from which the…

Book details

List price: $110.00
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 1/9/1992
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 376
Size: 6.26" wide x 9.33" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 1.628

D. C. Parker is Edward Cadbury Professor of Theology in the Department of Theology and Religion, University of Birmingham. His publications include The Living Text of the Gospels (1997) and Codex Bezae: An Early Christian Manuscript and its Text (1992).



Preface


List of abbreviations


Introduction



The Palaeography



The Codex and the hand



The punctuation



The secondary hands



Towards the codicology of a bilingual Codex



The Scribe and the Tradition



The sense-lines



The Nomina Sacra



The orthography



The Codex Bezae and its ancestors



The Correctors



The corrections



The supplementary leaves



The development of the corrected text



The Bilingual Tradition



The Codex and the critics



A comparison of the columns



The character of the tradition



Text and Codex



The origins of the Codex Bezae



The history of a text


Appendices


Notes on illustrations


Indices