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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...

Modern printed editions of the Greek NT offer the full sixteen-chapter form of the text with the doxology at the conclusion. There is no need here to detail the evidence for this form of the letter; it is explicit and substantial. Every extant MS contains the final two chapters. The placement of the doxology at the end of ch. 16 is justified, however, not by the quantity of witnesses, which weighs heavily in favor of placing the doxology after 14:23, but by the quality and
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