The Message of Acts in Codex Bezae, Volume IV: A Comparison with the Alexandrian Tradition, Acts 18.24-28.31: Rome

Rius-Camps, Josep & Read-Heimerdinger, Jenny

ISBN 10: 0567048993 / ISBN 13: 9780567048998

Published by T&T Clark, United Kingdom, 2009

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hardback, octavo, glazed boards, dust jacket not called for in this edition. A very well preserved tightly bound copy with clean and unmarked contents. Commissioning editor's complimentary copy, text unopened and unread. xiii + 418pp.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Message of Acts in Codex Bezae, Volume IV: A Comparison with the Alexandrian Tradition, Acts 18.24-28.31: Rome
• Publisher: T&T Clark, United Kingdom
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0567048993
• ISBN 13: 9780567048998
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

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Synopsis

This is the final volume in the justifiably lauded four-volume commentary on the Book of Acts, presenting a fresh look at the text of Codex Bezae and comparing its message with that of the more familiar Alexandrian text - of which the Codex Vaticanus is taken as a representative.

Where Codex Bezae is lacunary (after 22.29), other manuscripts that often support Bezan readings elsewhere are employed. Although based on the Greek text, the commentary aims to be accessible to those who are not familiar with Greek. It is intended to publish the entire Greek text of Codex Bezae following the publication of this fourth volume. The fourth volume addresses Acts 18.24-28.31, the chapters that cover the trial of Paul and the last stage of the mission to the Gentiles, culminating in Paul's unhindered proclamation of the gospel in Rome.

For each section, there is a side by side translation of the Vaticanus and Bezan manuscripts (or related alternatives after 22.29), followed by a full critical apparatus which deals with more technical matters, and finally, a commentary which explores in detail the differences in the message of the two texts. Of particular interest in this part of Acts is the evaluation made by the author of Paul's defence at his successive trials which, it is argued, is considerably less favourable than is commonly assumed.

About the Authors

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

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.

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.