Eldon Jay Epp, Ph.D. (1961), Harvard University, is a recognized specialist in New Testament manuscripts and textual criticism. He is Case Western Reserve Universitys Harkness Professor of Biblical Literature and Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences emeritus, and frequent adjunct professor at Harvard Divinity School.

"This book is a luxury item insofar as only one of its articles is published here for the first time. But it remains valuable as a resource for Epps thought, for his continued reflection on his own career, and as an overview of active discussions on textual criticism the past 15 years." Garrick V. Allen, University of Glasgow, in: Journal for the Study of the New Testament Booklist 2022 44.5, August 2022

• Location of Original PublicationsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsNotes to ReadersIntroduction to Volume Two, 2020Introduction to Volume One, 2005A Half-Century Adventure with New Testament Textual Criticismappendix: Republished Articles and Book Chapters1 The Jews and the Jewish Community in Oxyrhynchus: Socio-Religious Context for the New Testament Papyri2 Minor Textual Variants in Romans 16:73 It’s All about Variants: a Variant-Conscious Approach to New Testament Textual Criticism4 Are Early New Testament Manuscripts Truly Abundant?5 The New Testament Papyri and the Transmission of the New Testament6 The Disputed Words of the Eucharistic Institution (Luke 22,19b–20): the Long and Short of the Matter7 Traditional “Canons” of New Testament Textual Criticism: Their Value, Validity, and Viability – or Lack Thereof8 Textual Criticism and New Testament Interpretation9 The Papyrus Manuscripts of the New Testament10 Textual Clusters: Their Past and Future in New Testament Textual Criticism11 But Which Text? A Consideration of ‘Ausgangstext’ and “Initial Text”12 Why Does New Testament Textual Criticism Matter? Refined Definitions and Fresh Directions13 How New Testament Textual Variants Embody and Exhibit Prior Textual Traditions14 Codex Sinaiticus: Its Entrance into the Mid-Nineteenth Century Text-Critical Environment and Its Impact on the New Testament Text15 Critical Editions and the Development of Text-Critical Methods, Part 1: from Erasmus to Griesbach (1516–1807)16 Critical Editions and the Development of Text-Critical Methods, Part 2: from Lachmann (1831) to the Present17 The Late Constantin Tischendorf and Codex Sinaiticus: New Testament Textual Criticism without Them – an Exercise in Erasure History18 Early Christian Attitudes toward ‘Things Jewish’ as Narrated by Textual Variants in Acts: A Case Study of the D-Textual Cluster19 Text-Critical Witnesses and Methodology for Isolating a Distinctive D-Text in ActsTwo Previously Published Items and a Previously Unpublished Lecture that Reflect the Recent History of New Testament Textual Criticism20 Textual Criticism: New TestamentAnchor Bible Dictionary (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1992) Vol. 6, 412–3521 The American Textual Criticism Seminar: Retrospect and Prospect(Previously Unpublished) 196722 The “Foreword” to a Reprint of The Greek New Testament in the Original Greek by Brooke Loss Westcott and Fenton John Anthony Hort, 18812007Contents of Perspectives on New Testament Textual Criticism [Volume 1], 2005 and Errata in Volume 1Errata in Volume 1: Corrections and AdditionsText-Critical Books Written or Edited by the Author, and Articles Not Reprinted in Volumes 1 and 2 of Perspectives on New Testament Textual CriticismText-Critical Responsibilities of the AuthorText-Critical Books Published to date in NTTSD, Leiden/Boston: BrillIndex of Authors (Ancient and Modern)Index of PassagesIndex of Greek and Latin wordsIndex of New Testament Manuscripts, Versions, Editions, and Modern TranslationsIndex of Subjects