Timothy Ricchuiti tackles the textual history of the Gospel of Thomas, examining the Coptic text and the three Greek fragments, using internal evidence in order to determine the earliest stratum of Thomas. Matthew Morgan focuses attention on the only two Greek manuscripts that have a potentially Sabellian reading in John 1:1c. Philip Miller wrestles with whether the least orthodox reading should be a valid principle for determining the autographic text. Adam Messer looks at the patristic evidence of nor the Son in Matthew 24:36 in a quest to determine whether the excision of these words was influenced by orthodox Fathers. The book begins with the full transcription of Wallace's presentation at the Fourth Annual Greer-Heard Forum, in which he and Bart Ehrman debated over the reliability of the New Testament manuscripts. The other addresses textual issues related to an early apocryphal work, the Gospel of Thomas. This first volume focuses on issues in textual criticism: in particular, to what degree did the scribes, who copied their exemplars by hand, corrupt the autographs? All but one of the chapters deal specifically with New Testament textual criticism. Revisiting the Corruption of the New Testament is the inaugural volume of The Text and Canon of the New Testament series, edited by Daniel B.
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