Arthur G. Patzia

The

MakinG

of the

New
Testament

Origin, Collection,
Text & Canon

Foreword by
George R. Beasley-Murray

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©1995 by Arthur G. Patzia

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Scripture quotations, unless otherwise noted, are from the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., and are used by permission.

Table 2.3 is reprinted from Synopsis of the Four Gospels, edited by Kurt Aland. Copyright 1971 by the United Bible Societies. Used by permission.

Table 3.1 is reprinted from Letters of Paul: Conversations in Context (3rd ed.). ©1991 Calvin J. Roetzel. Used by permission of Westminster John Knox Press.

Table 6.3 is reprinted from J. H. Greenlee, Introduction to New Testament Textual Criticism, Revised Edition (Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson, 1994). Used with permission.

Tables 6.4 and 6.6 are reprinted from Bruce M. Metzger, The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption, and Restoration (3rd ed.). ©1992 Oxford University Press. Used by permission of Oxford University Press.

Table 7.3 is reprinted from The Greek New Testament, edited by Kurt Aland, Matthew Black, Carlo M. Martini, Bruce M. Metzger and Allen Wikgren. Fourth revised edition. Copyright 1966, 1968, 1975, 1983, 1993 by the United Bible Societies. Used by permission.

Cover illustration: Foto Marburg/Art Resource, NY. The Evangelist Matthew from Gospel Book of Bishop Ebbo of Reims (816–834), Bibliotheque Municipale, Epernay, France.

ISBN-10: 0-8308-1859-6

ISBN-13: 978-0-8308-1859-4

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Patzia, Arthur G.

The making of the New Testament: origin, collection, text and canon/by Arthur Gerald Patzia.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN 0-8308-1859-6

1. Bible. N.T.—Introductions. 2. Bible. N.T.—Canon. I. Title

BS2330.2.P37 1995

225.1—dc20 94–45403 CIP