The Message of Acts in Codex Bezae: A Comparison with the Alexandrian Tradition
The Message of Acts in Codex Bezae: A Comparison with the Alexandrian Tradition

The Message of Acts in Codex Bezae: A Comparison with the Alexandrian Tradition

in Library of New Testament Studies

by Jenny Read-Heimerdinger and Josep Rius-Camps

Pages 392
Publisher T&T Clark
Published 2004
ISBN-13 9780826470003
His book is a comparison of the message of Acts transmitted by Codex Bezae with that of the more familiar Alexandrian text, represented by Codex Vaticanus. For each section of Acts, there is a side by side translation of the Bezan and Alexandrian manuscripts, followed by a critical apparatus and, finally, a commentary that explores the differences in the message of the two texts. It is concluded that the Bezan text, with its interest in internal Jewish affairs and its focus on the struggles of the early disciples to free themselves from their traditional Jewish expectations and to achieve, despite their mistakes, a more accurate understanding of their master's teaching, is the earlier of the two texts.

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