Cover

Preface

Table of Contents

Thomas J. Kraus: Introduction

Part One: The Peculiarity of Majuscules and Minuscules

Giovanni Bazzana: “Write in a Book What You See and Send It to the Seven Assemblies”. Ancient Reading Practices and the Earliest Papyri of Revelation

Jeff Cate: The Curious Case of 𝕻. Another New Testament Opisthograph?

1 The Text of 𝕻

2 Oddities about the Format of 𝕻

3 𝕻 as a Roll?

4 Conclusion

Thomas J. Kraus: ʻWhen symbols and figures become physical objectsʼ. Critical notes about some of the “consistently cited witnesses” to the text of Revelation

1 Introduction – the peculiarity of the textual attestation of Rev

2 “Consistently cited witnesses” in NA²⁷ and NA²⁸

3 Noteworthy palaeographic observations and reflections on some of the “consistently cited witnesses”

3.1 𝕻¹⁸ (P.Oxy VIII 1079 = LDAB 2786; TM 61636)

3.2 𝕻⁴³ (P.Lond.Lit. 220 = LDAB 2824; TM 61673)

3.3 𝕻⁹⁸ (P.IFAO II 31 = LDAB 2776; TM 61626)

3.4 Majuscule 0229 (PSI XIII 1296 = LDAB 2839; TM 61688)

3.5 Majuscule 0163 (P.Oxy VI 848 = LDAB 2799; TM 61649)

3.6 Majuscule 0169 (P.Oxy VIII 1080 = LDAB 2793; TM 61643)

3.7 Majuscule 0308 (P.Oxy LXVI 4500 = LDAB 7162; TM 65899)

Excursus:0163, 0169, and 0308 as (fragments from) miniature codices

Some additional miniature codices with Rev

4 Conclusion

5 Prospects

Jeff Cate: Sisters Separated from Birth. An Examination of 792 and 2643 as Private Miniature Manuscripts

1 The Origins of 792 and 2643

2 The Peculiar Size of 792 and 2643

3 The Peculiar Contents of 792 and 2643

4 The Peculiar Textual Relationship of 792 and 2643

4.1 Peculiar Readings in the Gospels

4.2 Peculiar Readings in the Apocalypse

5 Conclusion

Part Two: The Peculiarity of Reception

Tobias Nicklas: Christliche Apokalypsen in Ägypten vor Konstantin. Kanon, Autorität, kontextuelle Funktion

1 Die Offenbarung des Johannes

1.1 P.IFAO II 31

1.2 P.IFAO II 31 und das „Neue Testament“?

1.3 Die Zeugnisse der Offenbarung in vorkonstantinischer Zeit

2 Der Hirt des Hermas

3 Die griechische (bzw. äthiopische) Petrusapokalypse (bzw. Offenbarung des Petrus)

4 Fazit

Lincoln H. Blumell and Thomas A. Wayment: The ‘Number of the Beast’. Revelation 13:18 and Early Christian Isopsephies

1 Isopsephy

2 The case of Revelation 13:18

3 Early Christian Isopsephies

4 Conclusion

Martin Meiser: Before Canonisation. Early Attestation of Revelation

1 Introduction

2 The Second Century

2.1 Justin

2.2 The Congregation of Lyons

2.3 Melito of Sardes

2.4 Irenaeus

3 The Third Century

3.1 Tertullian

3.2 Clement of Alexandria

3.3 Origen

3.4 Hippolytus of Rome

3.5 Cyprian

3.6 Victorinus of Pettau

3.7 The Passion of Perpetua and the Vision of Saturus

3.8 Methodius

3.9 Lactantius

4 Conclusion

4.1 Most important issues

4.2 Most used texts

4.3 Exegetical efforts

Michael J. Kruger: The Reception of the Book of Revelation in the Early Church

1 Initial Reception of Revelation

2 Later Doubts about Revelation

3 An uneasy Consensus on Revelation

Michael Sommer: What do Revelation’s handwritings tell us about its post-canonical role and function in the Bible? ‘Work in progress’

1 Introduction

2 Revelation’s handwritings – ceterum censeo of text-critical apocalypse research

3 Methodical limits

4 How manuscripts look – canon history and text-critical phenomenology

5 Inventory of manuscripts

6 Handwritings as contemporary witnesses

6.1 Differences in hermeneutics

6.2 Book of Revelation as last book of Bible

6.3 Revelation and the Gospel of John

6.4 Apocalypse of Jesus Christ and Hebrews

6.5 Day of Lord – Revelation, Jude and eschatology of ‘New Testament’

6.6 Revelation and letter to Philemon

7 Summary

Part Three: The Peculiarities and Miscellaneous

Markus Lembke: Besonderheiten der griechischen Überlieferung der Offenbarung und ihre Auswirkungen auf die Textkritik

1 Das Fehlen eines einheitlichen ‚alten Textes‘

1.1 P47–01 versus 02–04

1.2 Genealogische und phänomenologische Gruppierung

1.3 Zur Einordnung des Ökumeniustextes und der Minuskel 2344

1.4 Andere, selbstständige Zeugen

1.5 Familie 1006

1.6 Zwischenfazit

2 Das Phänomen des ‚geteilten Mehrheitstextes‘

2.1 Geteilte Mehrheit in anderen Schriften des NT

2.2 Geteilte Mehrheit nach Handschriftengruppen

2.3 Häufigkeit der geteilten Mehrheit

2.4 Die Nichtexistenz eines ‚byzantinischen Mehrheitstextes‘

2.5 Uneinheitlichkeit des Andreas-Textes und Existenz weiterer Gruppen

3 Konsequenzen der speziellen Überlieferungssituation

3.1 Die Beziehungen der Hauptstämme zueinander

3.2 Gruppengrenzen und Mehrheitsdefinition

3.3 Spezielle Anforderungen an die genealogische Methodik

Ulrich B. Schmid: Editing the Apocalypse in the twenty-first century

1 The (edited) text of John’s Apocalypse

1.1 Erasmus

1.2 Complutensian Polyglotte and the Textus Receptus

1.3 Beyond the Textus Receptus

2 The text tradition of John’s Apocalypse when compared to the other parts of the NT

3 A digital edition of the Apocalypse

Scott Charlesworth: The Heavenly Jesus Reinterprets Daniel. The Apocalypse as Corrective for the Olivet Discourse

1 Eschatological Expectation in the Olivet Discourse

1.1 The Markan Eschatological Discourse

1.2 Matthean and Lukan Redaction

1.3 This Generation

2 Reinterpretation of Daniel in the Apocalypse

2.1 Interpretation of Daniel in the Olivet Discourse

2.2 Revelation that Corrects the Olivet Discourse

2.3 Time Periods and the “Time of the End”

2.4 “Great Tribulation” in the Apocalypse

2.5 The Apocalypse as the Unsealing of Daniel

Primary Sources

Old Testament

New Testament

Table of Handwritings

New Testament Papyri

Papyri

Early Christian Sources

Subject Index