Manuscripts, Texts, Theology: Collected Papers 1977-2007

391 Pages·2009·1.994 MB·English

by  David C. Parker

David C.Parker
Manuscripts, Texts, Theology
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David C. Parker
Manuscripts, Texts, Theology
Collected Papers 1977-2007
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Contents
Places of Original Publication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . VII
Abbreviations and Commonly Cited Works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . IX

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

I. Manuscripts
1. A Dictation Theory of Codex Bezae . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2. A Copy of the Codex Mediolanensis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
3. Unequally Yoked: the Present State of the Codex Bobbiensis . . 25
4. The Majuscule Manuscripts of the New Testament . . . . . . . . . 33
5. Was Matthew Written Before 50 CE? The Magdalen Papyrus
of Matthew . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
6. Codex Bezae and other Greek New Testament Manuscripts
in Cambridge University Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
7. Α New Oxyrhynchus Papyrus of Revelation:
P115 (P. Oxy. 4499) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
8. Some New Manuscripts of the Greek New Testament
in Boston and Cambridge (with M.B. Morrill) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
9. Codex Bezae: The Manuscript as Past, Present and Future . . . 103
10. The Date of Codex Zacynthius ((cid:1)): A New Proposal . . . . . . . . 113
11. Manuscripts of John’s Gospel with Hermeneiai . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
12. Greek Gospel Manuscripts in Bucharest and Sofia . . . . . . . . . . 139
II. Textual Criticism
13. The Development of Textual Criticism since B.H. Streeter . . . . 151
14. The Translation of ΟΥΝ in the Old Latin Gospels . . . . . . . . . . 167
15. The Principles and Practice of New Testament Textual Criticism:
Collected Essays of G.D. Kilpatrick. A Review . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
VI Contents
16. The Development of the Critical Text of the Epistle of James.
From Lachmann to the Editio Critica Maior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
17. A Comparison between the Text und Textwert and the
Claremont Profile Method Analyses of Manuscripts
in the Gospel of Luke . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
18. The Quest of the Critical Edition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
III. Textual Criticism and Theology
19. Scripture is Tradition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265
20. The Early Tradition of Jesus’ Sayings on Divorce . . . . . . . . . . 273
21. Through a Screen Darkly: Digital Texts and
the New Testament . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287
22. Jesus in Textual Criticism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305
23. Et Incarnatus Est . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311
24. Textual Criticism and Theology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323
25. Calvin’s Biblical Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335
Indexes
Index of Manuscripts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355
Index of Biblical Citations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360
Index of Names and Subjects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370
Places of Original Publication
1. Journal for the Study of the New Testament 15 (1982), 97–112.
2. Journal of Theological Studies 41 (1990), 537–41.
3. Journal of Theological Studies 42 (1991), 581–8.
4. The Text of the New Testament in Contemporary Research. Essays on the
Status Quaestionis (Festschrift for B.M. Metzger), ed. B.D. Ehrman
and M.W. Holmes, Grand Rapids, Eerdmans 1995, 22–42.
5. The Expository Times 107 (November, 1995), 40–3.
6. Cambridge University Library. The Great Collections, ed. P. Fox,
Cambridge, University Press 1998, 33–43.
7. New Testament Studies 46 (2000), 159–74.
8. Harvard Theological Review 95 (2002), 237–44.
9. The Bible as Book. The Transmission of the Greek Text, ed. S.
McKendrick and O. O’Sullivan, London and New Castle DE, 2003,
43–50. [Reproduced by kind permission of the British Library and
Oak Knoll Press]
10. Journal of Theological Studies 55 (2004), 117–22, 30–31.
11. Transmission and Reception: New Testament Text-critical and Exegetical
Studies, ed. J.W. Childers, (TS 4), Piscataway, Gorgias Press 2006,
48-68.
12. Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library 85 (2003), 3–12.
13. New Testament Studies 24 (1977), 149–62.
14. New Testament Studies 31 (1985), 252–76.
15. Journal of Theological Studies 43 (1992), 210–14.
16. New Testament Textual Criticism and Exegesis. Festschrift J. Delobel,ed.
A. Denaux (BETL 161), Leuven, Peeters Press 2002, 317–30.
17. New Testament Studies 49 (2003), 108–38.
VIII Places of Original Publication
18. Variants 1 (2002), 33–42.
19. Theology 94 (1991), 11–17.
20. Theology 96 (1993), 372–83.
21. Journal for the Study of the New Testament 25 (2003), 395–411.
22. Jesus in History, Thought, and Culture. An Encyclopaedia, ed. J.L.
Houlden, 2 vols., Santa Barbara, Denver and Oxford, ABC-CLIO
2003, Vol. 2, 836–41.
23. Scottish Journal of Theology 54 (2001), 330–43.
24. The Expository Times 118 (2007), 583–9.
25. I. Calvini Commentarius in Epistolam Pauli ad Romanos (Ioannis
Calvini Opera Omnia denuo recognita et adnotatione critica
instructa notique illustrata, Series II Opera exegetica Veteris et Novi
Testamenti), ed. T.H.L. Parker and D.C. Parker, Geneva, Librairie
Droz 1999, XXXII–LI.
Abbreviations and Commonly Cited Works
Aland and Aland, Text1 B. and K. Aland, The Text of the New Testament.
An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the
Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism,
trans. E.F. Rhodes, Grand Rapids and Leiden,
1987
Aland and Aland, Text2 B. and K. Aland, The Text of the New Testament.
An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the
Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism,
trans. E.F. Rhodes, 2nd ed., Grand Rapids and
Leiden, 1989
AnBib Analecta biblica
ANRW Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt
ANTT Arbeiten zur neutestamentlichen Textforschung
ANTT 5 K. Aland (ed.), Die Älten Übersetzungen des
Neuen Testaments, die Kirchenvaterzitate und
Lektionare,Arbeiten zur neutestamentlichen
Textforschung 5, Berlin and New York, 1972
APF Archiv für Papyrusforschung
BBC Bulletin of the Bezan Club
BETL Bibliotheca ephemeridum theologicarum
lovaniensium, Leuven
BJRL Bulletin of the John Rylands Library
Cavallo, Ricerche G. Cavallo, Ricerche sulla maiuscola biblica,Studi
etesti di papirologia 2, Florence, 1967
Cavallo and Maehler, Greek Bookhands
G. Cavallo and H. Maehler, Greek Bookhands of
the Early Byzantine Period A.D. 300–800,
University of London Institute of Classical
Studies Bulletin Supplement 47, London, 1987
CHB Cambridge History of the Bible
X Abbreviations and Commonly Cited Works
Editio Critica Maior B. Aland, K. Aland, G. Mink, K. Wachtel (eds.),
Novum Testamentum Graecum Editio Critica Maior.
IV Die Katholischen Briefe,Stuttgart, 1997–
Ehrman and Holmes, Contemporary Research
B.D. Ehrman and M.W. Holmes (eds.), The Text
of the New Testament in Contemporary Research.
Essays on the Status Quaestionis.AVolume in
Honor of Bruce M. Metzger (SD 46), Grand
Rapids, 1995
GLB Aus der Geschichte der lateinischen Bibel,
Freiburg
HTR Harvard Theological Review
JBL Journal of Biblical Literature
JSNT Journal for the Study of the New Testament
JTS Journal of Theological Studies
Jülicher, Itala A. Jülicher (ed.), revd. W. Matzkow† and K.
Aland, Itala. Das Neue Testament in altlateinischer
Überlieferung nach den Handschriften,1.
Matthäusevangelium,Berlin and New York, 2nd
ed., 1972; 2. Marcusevangelium,Berlin, 2nd ed.,
1970;3. Lucasevangelium,2nd ed., Berlin and
New York, 1976; 4. Johannesevangelium,Berlin,
1963
Legg, Mark S.C.E. Legg, Nouum Testamentum Graece
secundum textum Westcotto-Hortianum.
Euangelium secundum Marcum,Oxford, 1935
Legg, Matthew S.C.E. Legg, Nouum Testamentum Graece
secundum textum Westcotto-Hortianum.
Euangelium secundum Matthaeum,Oxford, 1940
Liste K. Aland, Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen
Handschriften des Neuen Testaments,ANTT 1,
2nd ed., Berlin, 1994
Liste1 K. Aland, Kurzgefaßte Liste der griechischen
Handschriften des Neuen Testaments,ANTT 1,
Berlin, 1963
Lowe, Codices Latini Antiquiores
E.A. Lowe, Codices Latini Antiquiores. A
Palaeographical Guide to Latin Manuscripts Prior