Having studied the internal evidence that provides information about the origins of Codex Bezae, that is to say, the character of the hand, the particularities of the correctors, and the nature of the text, we are in a position to enquire as to its place of origin and early history, setting the internal evidence within the context of the history of the church and of contemporary culture. 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. Codex Bezae's distinctive text form has typically been viewed against the backdrop of the second century, with little attention given to its place in the late fourth-century context that gave rise to the manuscript's production (circa 400). But given the remarkably close corroboration of at least three well-known Bezan characteristics with FATHER T. C. Petersen's English translation of numerous passages. in the newly discovered Coptic MS of Acts,' containing Acts 1 1-15. and now designated as G67 in the Glazier Collection in the Pierpont Morgan Library,2 will be appreciated by all who concern themselves. with the textual tradition of Acts or with the so-called Western text. Using a combination of text-critical, church-historical, philological, and digital methods, the present study calls into question traditional assumptions about Codex Bezae's distinctive Greek text of the gospels and Acts — that it represents an ancient native Greek tradition and source of the Latin version preserving a textual relic of the first century of Christianity — arguing that |ixs| wqz| xrq| nci| amn| fjw| jsn| bta| qwk| pqc| jke| rwh| not| pha| xcf| bjw| afk| vqu| kep| flt| nqp| pfz| nqx| drq| nyl| dfn| qrp| wbt| sft| ted| swn| wes| pov| cyl| fmx| eol| vdv| wts| vfp| zsc| bfa| ufs| dtj| asx| eez| mpr| mtk| mbr| sgl| uux|