A History of Codex Bezae’s Text in the Gospel of Mark

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Using a combination of text-critical, church-historical, philological, and digital methods, the present study calls into question traditional assumptions about Codex Bezae's distinctive Greek text of the gospels and Acts - that it represents an ancient native Greek tradition and source of the Latin version preserving a textual relic of the first century of Christianity - arguing that this text can be credibly dated to the end of the fourth century, immediately preceding production of the manuscript, and represents the diorthosis of a Greek text to a Latin model distinct from the Latin column found in the manuscript itself. So the better part of this remarkable text derives ultimately from other traditions and, hence, its true significance lies in what it can tell us about the historical circumstances under which the manuscript and its final text were produced at the turn of the fifth century. Preface Acknowledgments Contents Introduction Chapter A: The Date of Codex Bezae’s Greek Text Chapter 2: Codex Bezae’s Greek Text and the Latin Version Chapter 3: Greek-Latin Bilingualism in Codex Bezae’s Production Context Chapter 4: Modeling Textual Change in the Development of Codex Bezae’s Greek Text Chapter 5: The Production Context of Codex Bezae’s Text of Mark Chapter 6: The Latin Layer of Codex Bezae’s Greek Text of Mark Chapter 7: Codex Bezae’s Text of Mark and the Greek Tradition Chapter 8: Towards a Textual History of Codex Bezae in Mark Appendix 1: List of Witnesses Appendix 2: Classification of Greek Witnesses in Mark Bibliography of Works Cited Index of Ancient Works General Index