This book is a major English-language introduction to the earliest manuscripts of the New Testament. An essential handbook for scholars and students, it provide

A provocative book from a highly original scholar, challenging much of what we know about early Christian manuscripts In this bold and groundbreaking book, Bren

David C. Parker is one of the world’s foremost specialists in the study of the New Testament text and of Greek and Latin manuscripts. In addition to editions,

This unique work takes a method of textual analysis commonly used in studies of ancient Western and Eastern manuscripts and applies it to twenty-one early Qur'a

New Testament textual critics who used language to group texts into families and genealogies were not pioneering new approaches, but rather borrowing the metaph