Texts and Artefacts: Selected Essays on Textual Criticism and Early Christian Manuscripts

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Larry W. Hurtado (University of Edinburgh, UK)

Texts and Artefacts

Selected Essays on Textual Criticism and Early Christian Manuscripts

Larry W. Hurtado (University of Edinburgh, UK)

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T.& T.Clark Ltd
30 November 2017

The Early Church; New Testaments

Series: The Library of New Testament Studies

The essays included in this volume present Larry W. Hurtado’s steadfast analysis of the earliest Christian manuscripts. In these chapters, Hurtado considers not only standard text-critical issues which seek to uncover an earliest possible version of a text, but also the very manuscripts that are available to us. As one of the pre-eminent scholars of the field, Hurtado examines often overlooked 2nd and 3rd century artefacts, which are among the earliest manuscripts available, drawing fascinating conclusions about the features of early Christianity.

Divided into two halves, the first part of the volume addresses text-critical and text-historical issues about the textual transmission of various New Testament writings. The second part looks at manuscripts as physical and visual artefacts themselves, exploring the metadata and sociology of their context and the nature of their first readers, for the light cast upon early Christianity. Whilst these essays are presented together here as a republished collection, Hurtado has made several updates across the collection to draw them together and to reflect on the developing nature of the issues that they address since they were first written.

By: Larry W. Hurtado (University of Edinburgh UK)
Imprint: T.& T.Clark Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 540g
ISBN: 9780567677716
ISBN 10: 0567677710
Series: The Library of New Testament Studies
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 30 November 2017
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction Part 1: Text-Critical and Text-Historical Studies 1. The New Testament in the Second Century: Text, Collections and Canon 2. The Early New Testament Papyri: A Survey of Their Significance 3. New Testament Scholarship and the Dating of New Testament Papyri 4. God or Jesus? Textual Ambiguity and Textual Variants in Acts of the Apostles Part 2: Manuscripts as Artefacts 5. The ‘Meta-Data’ of Earliest Christian Manuscripts 6. Manuscripts and the Sociology of Early Christian Reading 7. The Origin of the Nomina Sacra: A Proposal 8. The Staurogram in Early Christian Manuscripts: The Earliest Visual Reference to the Crucified Jesus 9. A Fresh Analysis of P.Oxyrhynchus 1228 (P22) as Artefact 10. The Greek Fragments of the Gospel of Thomas as Artefacts: Papyrological Observations on Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 1, Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 654 and Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 655 11. Who Read Early Christian Apocrypha? 12. P45 as Early Christian Artefact: What it Reflects about Early Christianity Index

Larry W. Hurtado is Professor Emeritus of New Testament Language, Literature and Theology at the University of Edinburgh, UK.

Reviews for Texts and Artefacts: Selected Essays on Textual Criticism and Early Christian Manuscripts

It will make an excellent companion reader for all students and scholars of the New Testament. Ultimately, this volume is an example a Hurtado's commitment to New Testament and early Christian scholarship. We are indebted to him for his many years of service to our guild. * Biblical Theology Bulletin * Masterly written and extremely insightful ... Studying these texts to try and determine the earliest available form of the Greek text is useful, but studying them as artefacts provides some understanding of the early Christians themselves. I highly recommend this volume. * Neotestamentica * Hurtado's style is moderate, though appropriately decisive and well-reasoned. As a result, each chapter is particularly engaging and persuasive. Ultimately, they are argued competently and convincingly for the importance of increased scholarly engagement with the physical and visual features of manuscripts for the purpose of developing a greater understanding of early Christianity and its texts. * Reviews in Biblical and Early Christian Studies *