The Editio Critica Maior provides the full range of resources necessary for scholarly research in establishing the text and reconstructing the history of the New Testament text during its first thousand years.

Resources include:

• all the variants found in the selected Greek manuscripts and in citations by the Greek Fathers, and
• the evidence of the most important early versions (Latin, Coptic, Syriac, Christian-Palestinian Aramaic, Ethiopic, and Gothic) where they witness to variants in the Greek text.

The text of the present edition has been established afresh on the basis of these resources.

The Editio Critica Maior of the Gospel of Mark is available in three volumes. This first volume (Volume I.2/1), Text, contains the Greek text of Mark along with a clearly structured, extensive text-critical apparatus.

The volume is edited by Holger Strutwolf, Georg Gäbel, Annette Hüffmeier, Marie-Luise Lakmann, Gregory S. Paulson, and Klaus Wachtel.