The Living Text of the Gospels
The Living Text of the Gospels
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USDThis book represents an important new departure in New Testament textual criticism. David Parker offers, for the first time, a different way of reading the Gospels that treats seriously the fact that they first existed as manuscripts. Through an analysis of different forms of a number of key passages, he demonstrates that the Gospels cannot be properly understood as texts without taking into consideration their physical existence as manuscripts, printed books and electronic text. In conclusion, he argues that the search for an original text of the Gospels is a misunderstanding of the way in which the early church passed down its traditions.
- The first book to offer a new way of reading the Gospels which treats seriously the fact that they first existed as manuscripts
- Assumes no prior knowledge of the subject and therefore can be used as a primer as well as being of interest to experts
- Presents the evidence in an innovative and creative way
Reviews & endorsements
"[Parker's] discussions are clear, entertaining, even at times amusing forays into a complicated field." Richard A. Vinson, Journal of Biblical Literature
"...the book is an important and fascinating contribution to the interpretation of the Gospels." Dwight . Peterson, Pro Ecclesia
Product details
August 1997Hardback
9780521590624
242 pages
216 × 140 × 17 mm
0.46kg
Available
Table of Contents
- Abbreviations
- Preface
- 1. The theory
- 2. The materials
- 3. The practice
- 4. As our Saviour taught us ... the Lord's Prayer
- 5. The sayings on marriage and divorce
- 6. The story of the woman taken in adultery
- 7. Secrets and hypotheses
- 8. The endings of Mark's Gospel
- 9. The last chapters of Luke
- 10. The development and transmission of the Fourth Gospel
- 11. From codex to disk
- 12. The living text
- Indexes.
