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THE EARLY TEXT OF THE NEW TESTAMENT This page intentionally left blank The Early Text of the New Testament Editedby CHARLES E. HILL AND MICHAEL J. KRUGER 1 1 GreatClarendonStreet,Oxford,OX26DP UnitedKingdom OxfordUniversityPressisadepartmentoftheUniversityofOxford. ItfurtherstheUniversity’sobjectiveofexcellenceinresearch,scholarship, andeducationbypublishingworldwide.Oxfordisaregisteredtrademarkof OxfordUniversityPressintheUKandincertainothercountries qOxfordUniversityPress2012 Themoralrightsoftheauthorshavebeenasserted FirstEditionpublishedin2012 Impression:1 Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced,storedin aretrievalsystem,ortransmitted,inanyformorbyanymeans,withoutthe priorpermissioninwritingofOxfordUniversityPress,orasexpresslypermitted bylaw,bylicenceorundertermsagreedwiththeappropriatereprographics rightsorganization.Enquiriesconcerningreproductionoutsidethescopeofthe aboveshouldbesenttotheRightsDepartment,OxfordUniversityPress,atthe addressabove Youmustnotcirculatethisworkinanyotherform andyoumustimposethissameconditiononanyacquirer BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationData Dataavailable LibraryofCongressCataloginginPublicationData Dataavailable ISBN978–0–19–956636–5 PrintedinGreatBritain onacid-freepaperby MPGBooksGroup,BodminandKing'sLynn Acknowledgements For a book such as this one, in which many have been involved, there are manywhodeserveourthanks.Wearegrateful,firstofall,fortheprivilegeof workingwiththeextraordinarygroupofexpertswhocontributedthechapters to this book. We believe the painstaking labour they have bestowed on the critical topic of the scribal context and early textual history of the New Testament books will bear the fruit of greater understanding for many years tocome. TheeditorsandproductionstaffatOxfordUniversityPress,includingTom Perridge, Lizzie Robottom, Anne Leask, Nicola Sangster, Jane Robson, and others unknown to us, have our thankful admiration for their thoroughness and perseverance through countless communications and revisions. We would like to thank translator Edwin Collado, bibliographer Greg Salazar, indexersTimMuether,JohnMuether,DavidVeldkamp,andAnnieMuether, librariansJohnMuether,MichaelFarrell,andLauraArmstrong.Wealsowish to acknowledge Randy and Linda Randall, benefactors of the Randall Fund, andBurtonandBettyMcPheetersandMarcyHill,benefactorsoftheMcPhe- eters-HillFund,whosegenerosityhelpedmakethisprojectpossible. Finally,toourwives,who,forsixandahalfyearshavebornepatientlywith usthroughtheseeminglyunendingstreamofunforeseenstagesofthisbook, wewanttoexpressourdeepestappreciation.Thelongtravailisfinallyover.At leastuntilthenextedition. This page intentionally left blank Contents Contributors ix Abbreviations xi Introduction:InSearchoftheEarliestTextoftheNewTestament 1 CharlesE.HillandMichaelJ.Kruger I. TheTextualandScribalCultureofEarlyChristianity 1. TheBookTradeintheRomanEmpire 23 HarryY.Gamble 2. Indicatorsof‘Catholicity’inEarlyGospelManuscripts 37 ScottCharlesworth 3. ManuscriptsandtheSociologyofEarlyChristianReading 49 LarryHurtado 4. EarlyChristianAttitudestowardtheReproductionofTexts 63 MichaelJ.Kruger II. TheManuscriptTradition 5. TheEarlyTextofMatthew 83 TommyWasserman 6. TheEarlyTextofMark 108 PeterM.Head 7. TheEarlyTextofLuke 121 JuanHernández,Jr. 8. TheEarlyTextofJohn 140 JuanChapa 9. TheEarlyTextofActs 157 ChristopherTuckett 10. TheEarlyTextofPaul(andHebrews) 175 JamesR.Royse 11. TheEarlyTextoftheCatholicEpistles 204 J.K.Elliott viii Contents 12. TheEarlyTextofRevelation 225 TobiasNicklas 13. ‘WhereTwoorThreeAreGatheredTogether’: TheWitnessoftheEarlyVersions 239 PeterWilliams III. EarlyCitationandUseofNewTestamentWritings 14. ‘InTheseVeryWords’:MethodsandStandards ofLiteraryBorrowingintheSecondCentury 261 CharlesE.Hill 15. TheTextoftheNewTestamentintheApostolicFathers 282 PaulFoster 16. MarcionandtheEarlyNewTestamentText 302 DieterT.Roth 17. Justin’sTextoftheGospels:AnotherLook attheCitationsin1Apol.15.1–8 313 JosephVerheyden 18. Tatian’sDiatessaronandtheGreekTextoftheGospels 336 TjitzeBaarda 19. EarlyApocryphalGospelsandtheNewTestamentText 350 StanleyE.Porter 20. Irenaeus’sTextoftheGospelsinAdversushaereses 370 D.JeffreyBinghamandBillyR.Todd,Jr. 21. ClementofAlexandria’sGospelCitations 393 CarlP.Cosaert Bibliography 414 IndexofBiblicalCitations 451 IndexofGreekManuscripts 470 SubjectIndex 476 Contributors TjitzeBaarda,ProfessorEmeritus,FreeUniversity,Amsterdam D. Jeffrey Bingham, Chairman and Professor of Theological Studies, Dallas TheologicalSeminary Juan Chapa, Associate Professor of New Testament, Faculty of Theology, UniversityofNavarra Scott Charlesworth, Senior Lecturer, School of Theology, Pacific Adventist University,PapuaNewGuinea CarlP.Cosaert,AssistantProfessorofNewTestamentandEarlyChristianity, SchoolofTheology,WallaWallaUniversity J. K. Elliott, Professor Emeritus of New Testament Textual Criticism, UniversityofLeeds Paul Foster, Senior Lecturer in New Testament Language, Literature and Theology,UniversityofEdinburgh Harry Y. Gamble, Chairman of the Religious Studies Department and Professor of New Testament Studies and Early Christianity at the University ofVirginia Peter M. Head, Sir Kirby Laing Senior Lecturer in New Testament, Tyndale HouseandFacultyofDivinity,UniversityofCambridge JuanHernández,Jr.,AssistantProfessorofBiblicalStudies,BethelUniversity CharlesE.Hill,ProfessorofNewTestament,ReformedTheologicalSeminary, Orlando,Florida Larry Hurtado, Emeritus Professor of New Testament Language, Literature andTheology,UniversityofEdinburgh Michael J. Kruger, Professor of New Testament, Reformed Theological Seminary,Charlotte,NC TobiasNicklas,ChairofNewTestamentStudies,UniversityofRegensburg Stanley E. Porter, President, Dean, and Professor of New Testament, McMasterDivinityCollege DieterT.Roth,Post-DoctoralFellowattheJohannesGutenberg-Universität, Mainz
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