Studies on the Text of the New Testament and Early Christianity: Essays in Honor of Michael W. Holmes On the Occasion of His 65th Birthday

733 Pages·2015·4.17 MB·English

by  Daniel Gurtner

Studies on the Text of the New Testament and Early Christianity
New Testament Tools,
Studies and Documents
Editors
Bart D. Ehrman, Ph.D. ( James A. Gray Distinguished Professor of Religious
Studies University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Eldon J. Epp, Ph.D. (Harkness Professor of Biblical Literature Emeritus and Dean
of Humanities and Social Sciences Emeritus, Case Western Reserve University,
Cleveland, Ohio)

VOLUME 50
New Testament Tools, Studies, and Documents (NTTSD) combines two series, New Testament
Tools and Studies (NTTS) and Studies and Documents (SD). The former was founded by Bruce
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The latter series was founded by Kirsopp and Silva Lake in 1935, edited by them until the death
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Studies on the Text of the
New Testament and
Early Christianity
Essays in Honor of Michael W. Holmes
On the Occasion of His 65th Birthday
Edited by
Daniel M. Gurtner, Juan Hernández Jr. and Paul Foster
LEIDEN | BOSTON
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Studies on the text of the New Testament and early Christianity : essays in honour of Michael W. Holmes on
the occasion of his 65th birthday / edited by Daniel M. Gurtner, Juan Hernández Jr., and Paul Foster.
  pages cm. — (New Testament tools, studies, and documents, ISSN 0077-8842 ; VOLUME 50)
 Includes bibliographical references and index.
 ISSN 978-90-04-28546-0 (hardback : alk. paper)—ISbN 978-90-04-30002-6 (e-book) 1. Bible. New
Testament—Criticism, Textual. 2. Christian literature, Early—History and criticism. 3. Church history—
Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600. I. Holmes, Michael W. (Michael William), 1950– honouree.
II. Gurtner, Daniel M., editor.
 BS2325.S78 2015
 225.4’86—dc23
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Contents
Foreword ix
Bart D. Ehrman
Abbreviations xv
Contributors xx
Introduction 1
Daniel M. Gurtner, Juan Hernández Jr. and Paul Foster
Part 1
Text Criticism
1 The Late Constantin Tischendorf and Codex Sinaiticus: New Testament
Textual Criticism without Them—An Exercise in Erasure History 15
Eldon Jay Epp
2 Patristic Evidence in the Apparatus Criticus of a Greek New
Testament 55
J.K. Elliott
3 Nestle-Aland 28 and the Revision of the Apocalypse’s Textual
History 71
Juan Hernández Jr.
4 The Edition of the Greek New Testament: A Plea and a Challenge 82
Jean-François Racine
5 Codex 2193 and Family 1 in Mark 100
Amy Anderson
6 Water and Blood and Matthew 27:49: A Johannine Reading in the
Matthean Passion Narrative? 134
Daniel M. Gurtner
7 Of Fish and Men: Comparative, Text-Critical and Papyrological Remarks
on Matthew 13:47–50 and the Gospel of Thomas 8 151
Christina M. Kreinecker
vi contents
8 The Son’s Ignorance in Matthew 24:36: An Exercise in Textual and
Redaction Criticism 178
Daniel B. Wallace
9 A Fresh Analysis of P.Oxyrhynchus 1228 (𝔓22) as Artefact 206
Larry W. Hurtado
10 Rightly Dividing the Word: Uncovering an Early Template for Textual
Division in John’s Gospel 217
Charles E. Hill
11 Asterius “the Sophist” of Cappadocia: Citations from the Gospel of
John as Attested in the Theological Fragments 239
Roderic L. Mullen
12 A Text-Critical Examination of the Johannine Variation 258
James R. Royse
13 The Selection of Greek Manuscripts to be Included in the
International Greek New Testament Project’s Edition of John
in the Editio Critica Maior 287
David C. Parker, Klaus Wachtel, Bruce Morrill and Ulrich Schmid
14 A Longer Text of Paul: Romans to Galatians in Codex
Wernigerodensis (VL 58) 329
H.A.G. Houghton
15 A Short Textual Commentary on Galatians 345
Tommy Wasserman
16 The Text of Galatians 4:25a 372
Christopher M. Tuckett
17 On the Marcionite Prologues to the Letters of Paul 389
Dirk Jongkind
contents vii
Part 2
Early Christianity
18 Polycarp in the Writings of Ignatius 411
Paul Foster
19 The Devil’s in the Details: The Apocalyptic “Adversary” in the
Martyrdom of Polycarp and the Martyrs of Lyons 432
Paul Anthony Hartog
20 The Old Testament in the Apostolic Fathers 453
James Carleton Paget
21 “Witnesses between You and Us”: The Role of the Letter-Carriers in
1 Clement 477
Peter M. Head
22 Defining Exceptions in the Didache 494
Clayton N. Jefford
23 Space, Body, and Church in Ignatius of Antioch: Toward a Spatial
Treatment 517
Harry O. Maier
24 Living as a “Christian”: Christian Ethos According to the Writings
of Ignatius of Antioch 537
Tobias Nicklas
25 Scripture and Christology in the Preaching of Peter
(Kerygma Petri) 555
Wilhelm Pratscher
26 On “Rotten Stones” and a Couple of Other Marginalia in the
Shepherd of Hermas 578
Joseph Verheyden