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| List of plates | |
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| Links to URLs | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| List of abbreviations | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Documents | |
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| The study of the manuscripts | |
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| The Christian book | |
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| The codex | |
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| The development of the Christian book | |
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| An introduction to palaeography | |
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| Greek manuscripts | |
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| Classifying Greek New Testament manuscripts | |
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| The Liste | |
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| Richard | |
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| The Bibliography | |
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| The Leuven Database of Ancient Books | |
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| Reproductions | |
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| Catalogues | |
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| Text und Textwert | |
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| Which edition uses which manuscripts | |
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| Resources referring to particular categories of manuscript | |
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| Latin manuscripts | |
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| Introductory | |
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| Tools for the study of Latin manuscripts | |
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| A brief guide to Latin palaeography | |
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| Tools for the study of Old Latin manuscripts | |
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| Tools for the study of Vulgate manuscripts | |
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| Syriac manuscripts | |
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| Coptic manuscripts | |
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| Manuscripts in more than one language | |
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| Manuscripts containing the entire New Testament | |
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| Ancient Greek manuscripts | |
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| Ancient Latin manuscripts | |
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| Ninth-century Latin Bibles | |
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| Byzantine Greek New Testaments | |
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| Syriac manuscripts | |
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| Coptic manuscripts | |
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| The medieval west | |
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| The Renaissance and the printing press | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Using the materials: a test case | |
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| Practical skills in the study of manuscripts | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Visiting a library | |
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| How to describe a manuscript of the Greek New Testament | |
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| How to make a paper collation of a manuscript | |
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| How to make an electronic transcription of a manuscript | |
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| How to make a paper transcription of a manuscript | |
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| Other types of witness | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Patristic citations | |
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| Editions of patristic writings | |
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| Evaluating citations | |
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| Tools for the study of patristic writings | |
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| Three special cases | |
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| The study of the versions | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Latin versions | |
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| The Syriac versions | |
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| The Coptic versions | |
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| The Armenian version | |
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| The Georgian version | |
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| The Ethiopic version | |
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| The Arabic versions | |
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| The Slavonic version | |
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| The Gothic version | |
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| Other versions | |
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| New Testament texts in other documents and media | |
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| Greek manuscripts excluded from the Liste | |
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| Inscriptions | |
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| Textual Criticism and Editions | |
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| Manuscripts as tradents of the text | |
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| Introductory | |
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| Two copying events | |
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| Codex Mediolanensis and its copy | |
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| The supplementary Latin leaves in Codex Bezae | |
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| A family of manuscripts | |
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| Corrections in manuscripts | |
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| Is there less variation in texts with fewer manuscripts? | |
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| Did scribes revise the text they were copying? | |
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| Did scribes write to dictation? | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Textual criticism | |
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| Two hundred years of textual criticism | |
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| Introduction to the topic | |
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| Lachmannian stemmatics | |
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| Methods of quantititative analysis | |
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| Coincidental agreement between witnesses | |
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| Evolution, genetics and stemmatics | |
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| The Coherence-Based Genealogical Method | |
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| What is a text-type? | |
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| Majority Text theory | |
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| Textual criticisms? | |
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| The history of the text and editing the text | |
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| The concept of textual history | |
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| Editing the text | |
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| The role of textual criticism | |
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| Textual criticism and history | |
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| Textual criticism and exegesis | |
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| Textual criticism and theology | |
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| Textual criticism and the world | |
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| Editions and how to use them | |
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| The history of editions | |
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| Why we have critical editions | |
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| The transition from manuscript to printed book | |
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| Editions which present the text of one or more witnesses in full | |
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| Editions which present the text of more than one witness in a compressed form | |
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| Editions of the Received Text, the Majority Text and the Byzantine Text | |
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| Editions which move from print towards the electronic edition | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The purposes of editions | |
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| The printed scholarly edition, major, minor and in hand | |
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| The printed reading edition | |
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| The principal print editions and how to use them | |
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| Tischendorf's eighth edition | |
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| Von Soden's editio maior | |
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| The International Greek New Testament Project's edition of Luke | |
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| The Nestle-Aland 27th edition | |
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| The Vetus Latina | |
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| The Editio critica maior | |
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| Synopses | |
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| Some other hand editions | |
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| Critical electronic editions | |
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| Their purpose and definition | |
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| Case studies | |
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| Advantages and disadvantages of the electronic edition | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Sections of the New Testament | |
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| The Book of Revelation | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The history of research | |
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| The manuscripts | |
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| The versions | |
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| The Latin versions | |
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| The Syriac versions | |
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| The Coptic versions | |
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| The commentaries | |
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| The text forms | |
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| Textual criticism | |
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| General considerations | |
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| The number of the beast | |
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| Other readings | |
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| Paul | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The writing of the letters | |
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| The growth of the Pauline corpus | |
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| The manuscripts | |
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| The versions | |
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| The Syriac versions | |
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| The Latin versions | |
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| The Coptic versions | |
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| Commentators | |
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| The Euthaliana | |
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| Variant readings with a bearing upon the formation of the collection | |
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| The endings of Romans | |
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| The problem of Ephesians | |
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| Other variant readings | |
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| 1 Corinthians 14.34-5 | |
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| Hebrews 2.9 | |
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| Editing the Pauline letters | |
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| Acts and the Catholic epistles | |
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| Introduction: Acts and the Catholic epistles as a unit in the tradition | |
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| The Acts of the Apostles | |
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| The genre of Acts and textual variation | |
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| The Greek witnesses | |
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| The versions | |
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| Interpreting the textual phenomena | |
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| The Catholic epistles | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Greek manuscripts | |
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| The versions | |
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| Commentaries | |
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| The history of the text | |
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| Conjectural emendation | |
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| The Epistle of Jude | |
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| The Gospels | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The fourfold Gospel | |
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| Ancillary material | |
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| The Eusebian Apparatus | |
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| The Vatican paragraphs and other divisions | |
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| The Greek manuscripts | |
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| Matthew | |
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| Mark | |
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| Luke | |
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| John | |
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| The versions | |
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| The Syriac versions | |
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| The Latin versions | |
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| The Coptic versions | |
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| Recent editions of other versions | |
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| Commentaries | |
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| Tatian's Diatessaron | |
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| Marcion's Gospel | |
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| Editions | |
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| Textual variation | |
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| Studying textual variation in the Gospels | |
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| Harmonisation | |
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| The endings of Mark | |
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| John 7.53-8.11 | |
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| Marcan style and thoroughgoing eclecticism | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Final thoughts | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Index of manuscripts | |
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| Index of biblical citations | |
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| Index of names and subjects | |