Message of Acts in Codex Bezae, The: A Comparison with the Alexandrian Tradition (The Library of New Testament Studies) - Softcover

Read-Heimerdinger, Jenny

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0567723143 ISBN 13: 9780567723147

Publisher: T&T Clark, 2025

Synopsis

His book is a comparison of the message of Acts transmitted by Codex 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.

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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.

Edition details

• Publisher: T&T Clark
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0567723143
• ISBN 13: 9780567723147
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 390