Early readers, scholars, and editors of the New Testament : papers from the Eighth Birmingham Colloquium on the Textual Criticism of the New Testament / edited by H.A.G. Houghton.

Proceedings of the Eighth Birmingham Colloquium on the Textual Criticism of the New Testament, held in the Orchard Learning Resource Centre at the University of Birmingham, March 4-6, 2013.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Hupr̊etai ... tou logou: does Luke1:2 throw light onto the book practices of the late first-century churches? / Thomas O'Loughlin -- The Gospel of John and its original readers / Hans Fr̲ster with Ulrike Swoboda -- The Eusebian Canons: their implications and potential / Satoshi Toda -- Donkeys or shoulders? Augustine as a textual critic of the Old and New Testament / Rebekka Schirner -- The sources for the temptations episode in the Paschale Carmen of Sedulius / Oliver Norris -- A reintroduction to the Budapest anonymous commentary on the Pauline letters / R.F. Maclachlan / Preliminary investigations of Origen's text of Galatians / Matthew R. Steinfeld -- Family 1 in Mark: preliminary results / Amy S. Anderson -- Textual criticism and the interpretation of texts: the example of the Gospel of John / Hans Fr̲ster -- The correspondence of Erwin Nestle with the BFBS and the 'Nestle-Kilpatrick' Greek New Testament edition of 1958 / Simon Crisp.

"The New Testament text has a long and varied history, in which readers, scholars and editors all play a part. Understanding the ways in which these users engage with the text, including the physical form in which they encounter the Bible, its role in liturgy, the creation of scholarly apparatus and commentary, types of quotation and allusion, and creative rewriting in different languages or genres, offers insight into its tradition and dissemination. The ten papers in this volume present original research focusing on primary material in a variety of fields and languages. Their scope stretches from the evidence in the gospels for 'ministers of the word', and the sources used by the evangelists, to the complex history and politics of a twentieth-century critical edition. Key third- and fourth-century figures are assessed, including Origen, Eusebius of Caesarea and Augustine, as well as an anonymous commentary on Paul used by Pelagius and only preserved in a single ninth-century manuscript. Traces of a pre-Vulgate Latin version are detected in the poetry of Sedulius, while early translations in general are explored as a way of shedding light on the initial reception of the gospels. One of the earliest scholarly 'editions' of the gospels, underlying the manuscripts known as Family 1, is examined in Mark."--

In English.