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The Textual History of the Letter to the Romans: A Study in Textual and Literary Criticism is unavailable, but you can change that!

This monograph is a defense of the literary unity of the book of Romans, a subject that has been treated in terms of textual criticism or of literary criticism, but not, until now, comprehensively with respect to both fields of research. A long-standing critical question is whether the letter to the Romans originally contained only the material now known as chapters 1–14 or perhaps 1–15. The...

Although it is preserved by no extant MS, diverse types of evidence show conclusively, if indirectly, that at one time the letter to the Romans was current in a form consisting of only fourteen chapters. Part of the oldest documentary evidence for the fourteen-chapter text is furnished by the capitula or breves found in many Vulgate MSS.4 These systems of text division provide a brief précis for each segment of the text, and so function in the manner of “tables of contents”
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