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Subject(s)

• Bible Gospels—Criticism, Textual [Browse]
• Bible Gospels Greek—Versions—Codex Alexandrinus (Biblical manuscript) [Browse]
• Codex Alexandrinus (Biblical manuscript) [Browse]

Series

• New Testament tools, studies and documents ; Volume 48. [More in this series]
• New Testament Tools, Studies and Documents, 0077-8842 ; Volume 48

Summary note

Codex Alexandrinus is one of the three earliest surviving entire Greek Bibles and is an important fifth-century witness to the Christian Scriptures, yet no major analysis of the codex has been performed in over a century. In A Study of the Gospels in Codex Alexandrinus W. Andrew Smith delivers a fresh and highly-detailed examination of the codex and its rich variety of features using codicology, palaeography, and statistical analysis. Among the highlights of this study, W. Andrew Smith’s work overturns the view that a single scribe was responsible for copying the canonical books of the New Testament and demonstrates that the orthographic patterns in the Gospels can no longer be used to argue for Egyptian provenance of the codex.

Notes

Description based upon print version of record.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

Language note

English

Contents

• Preliminary Material
• Introduction
• 1 Codex History
• 2 Codicology
• 3 Palaeography and Paratextual Features of the Gospels
• 4 Scribes
• Conclusion
• Appendix A. Tables of Concordance
• Appendix B. Orthographic Data
• Appendix C. Statistical Analysis
• Appendix D. Eusebian Apparatus Data
• Appendix E. Unit Delimitation Data
• Works Cited
• Index: Name and Subject
• Manuscript Index
• Index of Biblical References.

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ISBN

90-04-27485-5

OCLC

893333652

Doi

• 10.1163/9789004274853

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