Codex Bezae
An Early Christian Manuscript and its Text

David Parker makes a comprehensive investigation of the Codex Bezae, one of the most important primary sources in New Testament scholarship.

David C. Parker (Author)

9780521072366, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 14 August 2008

376 pages, 25 b/w illus.
23.4 x 15.6 x 2 cm, 0.54 kg

Review of the hardback: '… clear and valuable study.' The Times Literary Study

Codex Bezae is one of the most important primary sources in New Testament scholarship. Together with Codex Alexandrinus and Codex Vaticanus it represents one of our most significant links back to the early Church and its origins. Since its rediscovery in the sixteenth century, the riddles posed by its general appearance and its textual characteristics have continued to fascinate scholars, and David Parker here offers a comprehensive study of Codex Bezae. This book aims to cast light on the story behind this most enigmatic of manuscripts. Data are presented here that makes possible a reconstruction of the stages of copying from which the manuscript descends. An appraisal of the earliest correctors of the Codex enables the author to extend his picture of its history to the medieval period.

List of illustrations
Preface
List of abbreviations and textual conventions
Introduction
Part I. The Palaeography: 1. The codex and the hand
2. The punctuation
3. The secondary hands
4. Towards the codicology of a bilingual codex
Part II. The Scribe and the Tradition: 5. The sense-lines
6. The nomina sacra
7. The orthography
8. The Codex Bezae and its ancestors
Part III. The Correctors: 9. The corrections
10. The supplementary leaves
11. The development of the corrected text
Part IV. The Bilingual Tradition: 12. The codex and the critics
13. A comparison of the columns
14. The character of the tradition
Part V. Text and Codex: 15. The origins of the Codex Bezae
16. The history of a text
Appendices
Plates
Notes on the plates
Indexes.

Subject Areas: Christianity [HRC]