The Chrysostom–Ephrem connection decoded: how later readings shaped early commentary
This scholarly work examines how Chrysostom’s Acts commentary reflects an underlying Bezan-Ephrem text, revealing how ancient editors borrowed and adapted ideas across manuscripts. It shows how glosses and parallel passages can travel between authors, influencing what later readers saw as Chrysostom’s own words.
Through careful comparison of passages, the text traces how Ephrem’s ideas and phrases surface in Chrysostom’s notes, sometimes through Bezan revisions. The result is a clearer view of how the Western text of the New Testament developed, and why certain readings appear in multiple streams of tradition. The discussion stays focused on the evidence, avoiding speculation beyond the given material.
- Learn how patristic commentators might reuse earlier glosses and texts
- See how Bezan readings align with Ephrem and Chrysostom in key Acts passages
- Understand the methods scholars use to test textual affiliations and ascriptions
- Explore how such textual relationships affect our sense of transmission history
Ideal for students and readers of biblical criticism, patristic studies, and textual history who want a grounded, evidence-led look at cross-author textual influence.