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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...

and 16 belonged to the text used by the author of the prologues, since in these chapters Corinth stands out rather obviously as the place of writing (15:25–27; 16:1).20 Moreover, the order of the Pauline letters with Galatians in first place, followed by the Corinthian letters and Romans—an order presupposed by the prologues, attested for Marcion, and attested for the Old Syriac by Ephraem and the Catalogus Sinaiticus—may well be the result of an effort to order the letters chronologically, that
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