About the Book
A collection of cutting-edge studies on the features of New Testament manuscripts that may not receive the most attention, paratext. This book advances study of the textual and paratextual features of New Testament manuscripts and explores how textual criticism goes beyond individual readings to include studying the history of texts and their perceivable features
Table of Contents:
Contents
Preface
List of Figures and Tables
Abbreviations
Contributors
Introduction: Paratextual Features of Early Greek Manuscripts
Stanley E. Porter, Chris S. Stevens, and David I. Yoon
1 What Is Paratext? In Search of an Elusive Category
Stanley E. Porter
2 Missing the Point: Modern Punctuation Practice as Authoritative but Possibly Problematic Decision-Making
Hans Förster
3 Pointers to Persons and Pericopes? A Study of the Intermarginal Signs in Sahidic Manuscripts of the Gospel of John
Matthias H. O. Schulz
4 But for Me, the Scriptures are Jesus Christ (Ι̅Ϲ̅ Χ̅Ϲ̅; Ign. Phld. 8:2). Creedal Text-Coding and the Early Scribal System of Nomina Sacra
Tomas Bokedal
5 Segmentation and Interpretation of Early Pauline Manuscripts
S. Matthew Solomon
6 Can Papyri Correspondence Help Us to Understand Paul’s “Large Letters” in Galatians?
William Varner
7 The Tradition and Development of the Subscriptions to 1 Timothy
Tommy Wasserman and Linnea Thorp
8 Second Timothy: When and Where? Text and Traditions in the Subscriptions
Conrad Thorup Elmelund and Tommy Wasserman
9 Composite Citations in New Testament Greek Manuscripts
Sean A. Adams and Seth M. Ehorn
10 Titus in P32 and Early Majuscules: Textual Reliability and Scribal Design
Chris S. Stevens
11 The Scribal Use of Ekthesis as a Paragraph Marker? The Galatians Text in Codex Sinaiticus as a Test Case
David I. Yoon
12 Miniature Codices in Early Christianity
Michael J. Kruger
13 Marginalia in New Testament Greek Papyri: Implications for Scribal Practice and Textual Transmission
Michael P. Theophilos
Conclusion: Paratextual Features: Summary and Prospects
Stanley E. Porter, Chris S. Stevens, and David I. Yoon
About the Author :
Stanley E. Porter, Ph.D. (1988), University of Sheffield, is President, Dean, and Professor of New Testament at McMaster Divinity College, Hamilton, ON, Canada. He co-edited with Wendy J. Porter, New Testament Greek Papyri and Parchments: New Editions (2 vols.; de Gruyter, 2008).
Chris S. Stevens, Ph.D. (2019), McMaster Divinity College, is Pastor of Covenant Reformed in Louisiana. He has published on textual criticism, early Pauline corpus, and Greek linguistics.He is the author of History of the Pauline Corpus in Texts, Transmissions, and Trajectories (Brill, 2020).
David I. Yoon, Ph.D. (2018), McMaster Divinity College, teaches biblical studies at Emmanuel Bible College, Kitchener, ON, Canada. He is the author of A Discourse Analysis of Galatians and the New Perspective on Paul (Brill, 2019), and co-editor of Paul and Gnosis with Stanley E. Porter (Brill, 2015).
Contributors are:
Sean A. Adams, University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Tomas Bokedal, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
Seth M. Ehorn, Wheaton College, IL, USA
Conrad Thorup Elmelund, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Hans Förster, University of Vienna, Austria
Michael J. Kruger, Reformed Theological Seminary, Charlotte, NC, USA
Stanley E. Porter, McMaster Divinity College, Hamilton, ON, Canada
Matthias H. O. Schulz, University of Vienna, Austria
S. Matthew Solomon, Luther Rice College and Seminary, Lithonia, GA, USA
Chris S. Stevens, McMaster Divinity College, Hamilton, ON, Canada
Michael P. Theophilos, Australian Catholic University, Victoria, Australia
Linnea Thorp, Ansgar University College and Theological Seminary, Kristiansand, Norway
William Varner, The Master's University, Santa Clarita, CA, USA
Tommy Wasserman, Ansgar University College and Theological Seminary, Kristiansand, Norway
David I. Yoon, Emmanuel Bible College, Kitchener, ON, Canada
