Contents

Original Places of Publication

Introduction

Part One Methodology

Chapter One The New Testament Text in the Second Century: A Challenge for the Twenty-First Century

Chapter Two The Nature of the Evidence available for Reconstructuring the Text of the New Testament in the Second Century

Chapter Three Thoroughgoing Eclecticism

Part Two Manuscripts

Chapter Four Singular Readings in the Gospel Text of Papyrus 45

Chapter Five T.C. Skeat on the Dating and Origin of Codex Vaticanus

Chapter Six Codex Bezae and the Earliest Greek Papyri

Chapter Seven A Greek-Coptic (Sahidic) Fragment of Titus-Philemon (0205)

Chapter Eight The Greek Manuscript Heritage of the Book of Acts

Chapter Nine Manuscripts of the Book of Revelation Collated by H.C. Hoskier

Chapter Ten The Distinctiveness of the Greek Manuscripts of the Book of Revelation

Chapter Eleven Recent Oxyrhynchus Papyri

a) Six New Papyri of Matthew’s Gospel

b) Five New Papyri of the New Testament

c) Seven Recently Published New Testament Fragments from Oxyrhynchus

d) Four New Papyri containing the Fourth Gospel and their Relevance for the Apparatus Criticus

Part Three Studies and Praxis

A. Textual Variation

(a) Short Studies

Chapter Twelve The Influence of G.D. Kilpatrick

a) ἐρωτᾶv and ἐπερωτᾶv in the New Testament

b) The Position of Causal «ὅτι» Clauses in the New Testament

c) τε in the New Testament

d) καθώς and ὥσπερ in the New Testament

e) Mark and the Teaching of Jesus: An Examination of λόγος and εὐαγγέλιον

f) The Aorist Middle of ἀποκρίνομαι

g) New Testament Linguistic Usage

Chapter Thirteen Specific Variants

a) ὁ βαπτίζων and Mark 1:4

b) John 1:14 and the New Testament’s Use of πλήρης

c) John 1:18 ‘God’ or ‘Son’: Stalemate?

d) In Favour of καυθήσoμαι at I Corinthians 13:3

e) δίδωμι in 2 Timothy

f) When Jesus was apart from God: An Examination of Hebrews 2:9

(b) Longer Studies

Chapter Fourteen Mark 1:1–3—A Later Addition to the Gospel?

Chapter Fifteen The Position of the Verb in Mark with Special Reference to Mark 13

Chapter Sixteen The Last Twelve Verses of Mark: Original or Not?

Chapter Seventeen The Text of Acts in the Light of Two Recent Studies

Chapter Eighteen An Eclectic Study of the Book of Acts

Chapter Nineteen The Language and Style of the Concluding Doxology to the Epistle to the Romans

Chapter Twenty The Divine Names in the Corinthian Letters

B. Exegesis and Textual Criticism

Chapter Twenty-One a) The Conclusion of the Pericope of the Healing of the Leper and Mark 1:45 combined with Is ὁ ἐξελθών a Title for Jesus in Mark 1:45? and The Healing of the Leper in the Synoptic Parallels

b) Anna’s Age (Luke 2:36–37)

c) Is Post-Baptismal Sin Forgivable?

Chapter Twenty-Two The Parable of the Two Sons: Text and Exegesis

Chapter Twenty-Three Paul’s Teaching on Marriage in I Corinthians: Some Problems Considered

C. Text-Critical Issues concerning the Synoptic Problem

Chapter Twenty-Four An Examination of the Text and Apparatus of Three Recent Greek Synopses

Chapter Twenty-Five Textual Criticism, Assimilation and the Synoptic Gospels

Chapter Twenty-Six Printed Editions of Greek Synopses and their Influence on the Synoptic Problem

Chapter Twenty-Seven Resolving the Synoptic Problem using the Text of Printed Greek Synopses

Part Four Reviews of Recent Critical Editions

Chapter Twenty-eight The Editio Critica Maior

A) Reviews

i) James

ii) The Petrine Epistles

iii) 1 John

iv) 2, 3 John and Jude

b) i) Reactions to James and 1,2 Peter

ii) Changes to the Exegesis of the Catholic Epistles in the Light of the Text in the Editio Critica Maior

Chapter Twenty-Nine The United Bible Societies’ Fourth Revised Edition and Nestle-Aland 27

a) The Fourth Edition of the United Bible Societies’ Greek New Testament

b) The Twentyseventh Edition of Nestle-Aland’s Novum Testamentum Graece

c) The New Testament in Greek: Two New Editions

Chapter Thirty The International Greek New Testament Project’s Volumes on the Gospel of Luke

Chapter Thirty-One The Marc Multilingue Project

Appendix

Chapter Thirty-Two Manuscripts, the Codex and the Canon

Publications by J.K. Elliott

INDEX