The Message of Acts in Codex Bezae: A Comparison With the Alexandrian Tradition

Rius-Camps, Josep/ Keith, Chris (Editor)/ Read-Heimerdinger, Jenny

ISBN 10: 056772428X / ISBN 13: 9780567724281

Published by Bloomsbury T & T Clark, 2025

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• Title: The Message of Acts in Codex Bezae: A Comparison With the Alexandrian Tradition
• Publisher: Bloomsbury T & T Clark
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 056772428X
• ISBN 13: 9780567724281
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.58 kilograms

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Synopsis

A comparison of the message of Acts transmitted by Codez Bezae with that of the more familiar Alexandrian text, represented by Codex Vaticanus. For each section of Acts, there is a side by side translation of the Bezan and Alexandrian manuscripts, followed by a critical apparatus and, finally, a commentary that explores the differences in the message of the two texts. It is concluded that the Bezan text, with its interest in internal Jewish affairs and its focus on the struggles of the early disciples to free themselves from their traditional Jewish expectations and to achieve, despite their mistakes, a more accurate understanding of their master's teaching, is the earlier of the two texts. LNTS 302

About the Authors

Josep Rius-Camps is a Priest of the Diocese of Barcelona and is Emeritus Professor and a Research Fellow at the Facultat de Teologia de Catalunya in Barcelona, Spain.

Jenny Read-Heimerdinger is post-graduate supervisor at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David, UK

Chris Keith is Research Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society, Norway. He is the author of The Pericope Adulterae, the Gospel of John and the Literacy of Jesus, a winner of the 2010 John Templeton Award for Theological Promise, and Jesus' Literacy: Scribal Culture and the Teacher from Galilee. He is also the co-editor of Jesus among Friends and Enemies: A Historical and Literary Introduction to Jesus in the Gospels, and was recently named a 2012 Society of Biblical Literature Regional Scholar.