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title: The Early Text of the New Testament Now Available (in the UK)
canonical: "https://michaeljkruger.com/the-early-text-of-the-new-testament-now-available-in-the-uk/"
pubDate: "2012-06-20T09:16:42.000Z"
updatedDate: "2023-04-14T17:30:53.000Z"
author: Michael Kruger
description: "I just heard from the folks at Oxford University Press this week and they indicated that the volume edited by Chuck Hill and myself, The Early Text of the New Testament, is now available in the UK. Unfortunately, like many Oxford volumes, it is a bit pricey at 90 pounds ($175). Ouch. But, hopefully some [...]"
tags: [Ancient Manuscripts, Gospels, Jesus Tradition]
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I just heard from the folks at Oxford University Press this week and they indicated that the volume edited by Chuck Hill and myself, [*The Early Text of the New Testament*](http://amzn.to/2iMVV10), is now available in the UK. Unfortunately, like many Oxford volumes, it is a bit pricey at 90 pounds ($175). Ouch. But, hopefully some major research libraries will pick it up (and some scholars with a generous book budget!). The book is available in the US in August.

Here is a blurb from the back cover and the table of contents:

> The Early Text of the New Testament aims to examine and assess from our earliest extant sources the most primitive state of the New Testament text now known. What sort of changes did scribes make to the text? What is the quality of the text now at our disposal? What can we learn about the nature of textual transmission in the earliest centuries? In addition to exploring the textual and scribal culture of early Christianity, this volume explores the textual evidence for all the sections of the New Testament. It also examines the evidence from the earliest translations of New Testament writings and the citations or allusions to New Testament texts in other early Christian writers.
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> Introduction: In Search of the Earliest Text of the New Testament
> Charles E. Hill and Michael J. Kruger
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> I. The Textual and Scribal Culture of Early Christianity
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> ![Image result for Early Text of the New Testament](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51oBT11s13L._SX331_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg)
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> 1. The Book Trade in the Roman Empire
> Harry Y. Gamble
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> 2. Indicators of ‘Catholicity’ in Early Gospel Manuscripts.
> Scott Charlesworth
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> 3. Towards a Sociology of Reading in Early Christianity
> Larry Hurtado
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> 4. Early Christian Attitudes towards the Reproduction of Texts
> Michael J. Kruger
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> II. The Manuscript Tradition
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> 5. The Early Text of Matthew
> Tommy Wasserman
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> 6. The Early Text of Mark
> Peter Head
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> 7. The Early Text of Luke
> Juan Hernández
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> 8. The Early Text of John
> Juan Chapa
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> 9. The Early Text of Acts
> Christopher Tuckett
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> 10. The Early Text of Paul (and Hebrews)
> James R. Royse
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> 11. The Early Text of the Catholic Epistles
> J. K. Elliott
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> 12. The Early Text of Revelation
> Tobias Nicklas
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> 13. ‘Where Two or Three are Gathered Together’:
> The Witness of the Early Versions
> Peter Williams
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> III. Early Citation and Use of New Testament Writings
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> 14. ‘In These Very Words’. Methods and Standards
> of Literary Borrowing in the Second Century
> Charles E. Hill
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> 15. The Text of the New Testament in the Apostolic Fathers
> Paul Foster
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> 16. Marcion and the Early New Testament Text
> Dieter T. Roth
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> 17. Justin’s Text of the Gospels. Another Look
> at the Citations in 1 Apol. 15.1–8
> Joseph Verheyden
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> 18. Tatian’s Diatessaron and the Greek Text of the Gospels
> Tjitze Baarda
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> 19. Early Apocryphal Gospels and the New Testament Text
> Stanley E. Porter
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> 20. Irenaeus’s Text of the Gospels in Adversus haereses
> D. Jeffrey Bingham and Billy R. Todd, Jr.
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> 21. Clement of Alexandria’s Gospel Citations
> Carl P. Cosaert