The Epistle of Jude: Its Text and Transmission (Coniectanea Biblica, New Testament)
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Overview
This study treats the textual tradition of the Epistle of Jude. The nucleus of the study is an exhaustive critical apparatus presenting the evidence of 560 Greek MSS, including dozens of lectionaries. The major part of these textual witnesses have not received the attention they deserve. Now, for the first time, all these MSS have been collated in a complete book of the NT. The complete collation has brought many new readings to light, some of which were only known through ancient versions, and previously known and important readings have gained additional support. An accompanying textual commentary explains the rationale behind the various text-critical decisions in over 100 passages. An innovation is the employment of a new rating system of a more descriptive nature than other counterparts. In a treatment of the literary and text-critical relationship between 2 Peter and Jude, it is argued that the Epistle of Jude has literary priority. Further, the textual traditions of the two writings show that scribal harmonization between the parallel accounts occurs relatively infrequently. Two significant witnesses, P72 and Codex Vaticanus (B 03), lack such harmonization altogether. The history of the text is also the history of readers and their world, as disclosed through the palaeographic and textual evidence. Every manuscript has a unique story to tell, about the ancient copyists, owners and users. In particular, the two earliest papyrus witnesses to Jude, P72 and P78 (ca. 300 C.E.), are studied in detail. For the first time, plates of these early papyri and the recently registered uncial 0316 are published with complete transcriptions. In addition, plates of two significant minuscules are published with short descriptions. The Greek New Testament manuscripts are crucial for the history of Christianity throughout the centuries and they deserve our closest attention.
- Treats the textual tradition of the Epistle of Jude.
- Presents the evidence of 560 Greek MSS, including dozens of lectionaries.
- Explains the rationale behind the various text-critical decisions in over 100 passages.
Very few doctoral studies can claim to be magisterial, however, Wasserman’s study rightly deserves such a title. He presents an exhaustive study of the manuscript tradition of the Epistle of Jude. What this means in practice is assembling and collating the readings from 560 Greek manuscripts of this letter. The evidence is drawn from familiar papyrus and uncial texts, but the ground-breaking aspect is the integration of evidence from hundreds of minuscule manuscripts and lectionaries.
—Paul Foster, School of Divinity, University of Edinburghin Expository Times, (2007) 118
Wasserman’s presentation of evidence as completely as possible is really laudable, and the caution and reason of the author’s argument and the aim to encourage the readers to decide independently point in a direction in which textual criticism may get out of its ‘esoteric’ corner, and textual history can also become an important aid for exegesis.
—Jörg Frey in TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism 15 (2010).
This is obviously essential reading for those engaged in textual criticism of the NT, and particularly of Jude. It is also very important for anyone with a more general interest in Jude and, to a lesser extent, 2 Peter. Finally, it provides a helpful update on the current state of textual criticism for all scholars of the NT who may (like theauthor of this review) attend to the subject less than they should.
—Terrance Callan, The Athenaeum of Ohio, in Catholic Biblical Quarterly, 69, (2007).
- Title: The Epistle of Jude: Its Text and Transmission (Coniectanea Biblica, New Testament)
- Author: Tommy Wasserman
- Series: Coniectanea Biblica, New Testament
- Publisher: Tommy Wasserman
- Print Publication Date: 2006
- Pages: 388
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- ISBNs: 9789122021599, 9122021590
- Resource ID: LLS:PSTLJDTTRNSMSSN
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-09-20T18:47:18Z