Larry W. Hurtado is Professor Emeritus of New Testament Language, Literature and Theology at the University of Edinburgh, UK.

• IntroductionPart 1: Text-Critical and Text-Historical Studies1. The New Testament in the Second Century: Text, Collections and Canon 2. The Early New Testament Papyri: A Survey of Their Significance3. New Testament Scholarship and the Dating of New Testament Papyri4. God or Jesus? Textual Ambiguity and Textual Variants in Acts of the ApostlesPart 2: Manuscripts as Artefacts5. The ‘Meta-Data’ of Earliest Christian Manuscripts6. Manuscripts and the Sociology of Early Christian Reading7. The Origin of the Nomina Sacra: A Proposal8. The Staurogram in Early Christian Manuscripts: The Earliest Visual Reference to the Crucified Jesus9. A Fresh Analysis of P.Oxyrhynchus 1228 (P22) as Artefact10. The Greek Fragments of the Gospel of Thomas as Artefacts: Papyrological Observations on Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 1, Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 654 and Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 65511. Who Read Early Christian Apocrypha?12. P45 as Early Christian Artefact: What it Reflects about Early ChristianityIndex

It will make an excellent companion reader for all students and scholars of the New Testament. Ultimately, this volume is an example a Hurtado’s commitment to New Testament and early Christian scholarship. We are indebted to him for his many years of service to our guild.

Larry W. Hurtado is Professor Emeritus of New Testament Language, Literature and Theology at the University of Edinburgh, UK.

• IntroductionPart 1: Text-Critical and Text-Historical Studies1. The New Testament in the Second Century: Text, Collections and Canon 2. The Early New Testament Papyri: A Survey of Their Significance3. New Testament Scholarship and the Dating of New Testament Papyri4. God or Jesus? Textual Ambiguity and Textual Variants in Acts of the ApostlesPart 2: Manuscripts as Artefacts5. The ‘Meta-Data’ of Earliest Christian Manuscripts6. Manuscripts and the Sociology of Early Christian Reading7. The Origin of the Nomina Sacra: A Proposal8. The Staurogram in Early Christian Manuscripts: The Earliest Visual Reference to the Crucified Jesus9. A Fresh Analysis of P.Oxyrhynchus 1228 (P22) as Artefact10. The Greek Fragments of the Gospel of Thomas as Artefacts: Papyrological Observations on Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 1, Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 654 and Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 65511. Who Read Early Christian Apocrypha?12. P45 as Early Christian Artefact: What it Reflects about Early ChristianityIndex

It will make an excellent companion reader for all students and scholars of the New Testament. Ultimately, this volume is an example a Hurtado’s commitment to New Testament and early Christian scholarship. We are indebted to him for his many years of service to our guild.

Larry W. Hurtado is Professor Emeritus of New Testament Language, Literature and Theology at the University of Edinburgh, UK.

• IntroductionPart 1: Text-Critical and Text-Historical Studies1. The New Testament in the Second Century: Text, Collections and Canon 2. The Early New Testament Papyri: A Survey of Their Significance3. New Testament Scholarship and the Dating of New Testament Papyri4. God or Jesus? Textual Ambiguity and Textual Variants in Acts of the ApostlesPart 2: Manuscripts as Artefacts5. The ‘Meta-Data’ of Earliest Christian Manuscripts6. Manuscripts and the Sociology of Early Christian Reading7. The Origin of the Nomina Sacra: A Proposal8. The Staurogram in Early Christian Manuscripts: The Earliest Visual Reference to the Crucified Jesus9. A Fresh Analysis of P.Oxyrhynchus 1228 (P22) as Artefact10. The Greek Fragments of the Gospel of Thomas as Artefacts: Papyrological Observations on Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 1, Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 654 and Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 65511. Who Read Early Christian Apocrypha?12. P45 as Early Christian Artefact: What it Reflects about Early ChristianityIndex

It will make an excellent companion reader for all students and scholars of the New Testament. Ultimately, this volume is an example a Hurtado’s commitment to New Testament and early Christian scholarship. We are indebted to him for his many years of service to our guild.