Studies on the Paratextual Features of Early New Testament Manuscripts: Texts and Editions of the New Testament (Texts and Editions for New Testament Study, 16)

Most studies of ancient New Testament manuscripts focus on individual readings and textual variants. This book, however, draws attention to, and attempts to advance, study of the textual and paratextual features of New Testament manuscripts. After defining paratext, the contributors discuss key manuscript characteristics, including headings, introductions, marginal comments, colophons, layout features such as margins, columns, spacing, and reading aids such as segmentation, paragraphos, ekthesis, coronis, and rubrication. The goal of this book is to explore how textual criticism goes beyond individual readings and includes studying the history of texts and their perceivable features. Contents 6 Preface 8 Figures and Tables 10 Abbreviations 14 Contributors 17 Introduction: Paratextual Features of Early Greek Manuscripts 18 Chapter 1 What Is Paratext? In Search of an Elusive Category 30 Chapter 2 Missing the Point: Modern Punctuation Practice as Authoritative but Possibly Problematic Decision-Making 50 Chapter 3 Pointers to Persons and Pericopes? A Study of the Intermarginal Signs in Sahidic Manuscripts of the Gospel of John 76 Chapter 4 But for Me, the Scriptures Are Jesus Christ (ΙC􁐊 ΧC􁐊 ; Ign. Phld. 8:2): Creedal Text-Coding and the Early Scribal System of Nomina Sacra 106 Chapter 5 Segmentation and Interpretation of Early Pauline Manuscripts 140 Chapter 6 Can Papyri Correspondence Help Us to Understand Paul’s “Large Letters” in Galatians? 163 Chapter 7 The Tradition and Development of the Subscriptions to 1 Timothy 189 Chapter 8 Second Timothy: When and Where? Text and Traditions in the Subscriptions 219 Chapter 9 Composite Citations in New Testament Greek Manuscripts 244 Chapter 10 Titus in P32 and Early Majuscules: Textual Reliability and Scribal Design 284 Chapter 11 The Scribal Use of Ekthesis as a Paragraph Marker? The Galatians Text in Codex Sinaiticus as a Test Case 305 Chapter 12 Miniature Codices in Early Christianity 327 Chapter 13 Marginalia in New Testament Greek Papyri: Implications for Scribal Practice and Textual Transmission 347 Conclusion: Paratextual Features: Summary and Prospects 375 Index of Ancient Sources 378 Index of Modern Authors 392 A collection of cutting-edge studies on the features of New Testament manuscripts that may not receive the most attention, paratext. This book advances study of the textual and paratextual features of New Testament manuscripts and explores how textual criticism goes beyond individual readings to include studying the history of texts and their perceivable features