Studies on the Intersection of Text, Paratext, and Reception

Gregory R. Lanier (Ph.D., University of Cambridge) is Associate Professor of New Testament at Reformed Theological Seminary, Orlando. He has authored or edited Corpus Christologicum (Hendrickson, 2021); Septuaginta: A Reader’s Edition (Hendrickson, 2018); and Old Testament Conceptual Metaphors and the Christology of Luke’s Gospel (Bloomsbury, 2018) as well as several academic articles.J. Nicholas Reid (D.Phil., University of Oxford) is Associate Professor of Old Testament and Ancient Near Eastern Studies at Reformed Theological Seminary, Orlando. He has co-authored a forthcoming volume on Letters from Old Babylonian Kish (Oxford University Press, 2021), and has published several academic articles.

"The volume impressively straddles a range of disciplinary specialisms while offering much to engage the more general NT scholar." – Alison M. Jack, University of Edinburgh, in: Journal for the Study of the New Testament Booklist 2022 44.5, August 2022.

• PrefaceList of Figures and TablesAbbreviationsNotes on ContributorsPart 1 Text and Paratext1 Punctuation and Paragraphs in P66 (P.Bod. II): Insights into Scribal BehaviorPeter M. Head2 The Text and Paratext of Minuscule GA 1424: Initial ObservationsGregory R. Lanier and Moses Han3 Marginal Paratexts in GA 2323: A Thirteenth-Century Witness to the Medieval Reception of RevelationPeter Malik4 Writing and Writers in Ancient Mesopotamia: A Brief Sketch for New Testament ScholarsJ. Nicholas Reid5 On Not Preferring the Shorter Reading: Matthew as a Test CasePeter J. Gurry6 Codex Bezae as RepositoryJennifer Knust and Tommy Wasserman7 What Is a Text? The Linguistic Turn and Its Implications for New Testament StudiesStanley E. PorterPart 2 Text, Canon, and Reception8 Second Peter 3:2, the Apostolate, and a Bi-covenantal CanonMichael J. Kruger9 MasPsa and the Early History of the Hebrew Psalter: Notes on Canon and TextPeter J. Gentry10 Problems with the Explicit Marking of Quotations in Translations and Scholarly Editions of the New TestamentPeter J. Williams11 Polycarp’s Teaching: The Reception and Development of TheologyPaul Foster12 A Neglected Reference to John the Elder as Bishop of Ephesus (Const. ap. 7.46.7)Richard Bauckham13 The Acts of John within the Johannine CorpusJames W. BarkerA Bibliography of the Works of Charles E. HillIndices