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A History of Codex Bezae's Text in the Gospel of Mark

by Peter E. Lorenz

  • Hardback
  • 1029 pages
  • Publisher: de Gruyter
  • 15.6 x 23.4 x 5.6 cm

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For scholars and students of biblical criticism.

Explains the true origins of this famous manuscript.

Deepens your grasp of early church history today.

A detailed scholarly examination of the historical origins and textual development of the Codex Bezae.

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Using a combination of text-critical, church-historical, philological, and digital methods, the present study calls into question traditional assumptions about Codex Bezae's distinctive Greek text of the gospels and Acts -- that it represents an ancient native Greek tradition and source of the Latin version preserving a textual relic of the first century of Christianity -- arguing that this text can be credibly dated to the end of the fourth century, immediately preceding production of the manuscript, and represents the diorthosis of a Greek text to a Latin model distinct from the Latin column found in the manuscript itself. So the better part of this remarkable text derives ultimately from other traditions and, hence, its true significance lies in what it can tell us about the historical circumstances under which the manuscript and its final text were produced at the turn of the fifth century.

  • Title

    A History of Codex Bezae's Text in the Gospel of Mark

  • Author

    Peter E. Lorenz

  • Book Format

    Hardcover

  • Publisher

    de Gruyter

  • Published

    November 2021

  • Weight

    1649g

  • Page Count

    1029

  • Dimensions

    15.6 x 23.4 x 5.6 cm

  • ISBN

    9783110746051

  • ISBN-10

    3110746050

  • Eden Code

    5660684