The Freer Biblical Manuscripts: Fresh Studies of an American Treasure Trove
Larry W. Hurtado, editor
The six biblical manuscripts that reside in the Freer Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., are historically significant artifacts for tracing the early history of the transmission of the writings that make up the New Testament and the Septuagint. The manuscripts, all purchased in Egypt at the beginning of the twentieth century by Charles Freer, date to the third through fifth centuries and include codices of the four Gospels, Deuteronomy and Joshua, the Psalms, and the Pauline Epistles, as well as a Coptic codex of the Psalms and a papyrus codex of the Minor Prophets, which, until the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, was the earliest Greek manuscript of the Minor Prophets known. The ten essays in this volume are a notable collection of fresh scholarship with long-term value for the study of what is a small but highly valuable treasure trove of biblical manuscripts.
Paper $39.95 • ISBN: 1-58983-097-0 • 372 pages, October 2006 • Archaeology and Biblical Studies 9 • Hardback edition www.brill.nl
Introduction
—Larry W. Hurtado
Paleography and Philanthropy: Charles Lang Freer and His Acquisition of the “Freer Biblical Manuscripts”
—Kent D. Clarke
The Freer Twelve Minor Prophets Codex—A Case Study: The Old Greek Text of Jonah, Its Revisions, and Its Corrections
—Kristin De Troyer
The Unidentified Text in the Freer Minor Prophets Codex
—Malcolm Choat
The Text of Matthew in the Freer Gospels: A Quantitative and Qualitative Appraisal
—Jean-François Racine
The Use and Nonuse of Nomina Sacra in the Freer Gospel of Matthew
—J. Bruce Prior
Was Codex Washingtonianus a Copy or a New Text?
—Dennis Haugh
The Corrections in the Freer Gospels Codex
—James R. Royse
Reassessing the Palaeography and Codicology of the Freer Gospel Manuscript
—Ulrich Schmid
The Scribal Characteristics of the Freer Pauline Codex
—Thomas A. Wayment
Manuscript Markup
—Timothy J. Finney
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