My monograph The Epistle of Jude: Its Text and Transmission is now available as an e-book for the first time through Amazon (Kindle).
Since the publisher went out of business and the dsitributor Eisenbrauns became an imprint of PSU Press many years ago it has been difficult to get the paperback but now it is possible to order the book in three different formats through Amazon:
E-book (Kindle) $9.99
Paperback $19.99
Hardback $29.99
The study treats the textual tradition of the Epistle of Jude. The
nucleus of the study is an exhaustive critical apparatus presenting the
evidence of 560 Greek MSS, including dozens of lectionaries. The major
part of these textual witnesses have not received the attention they
deserve. Now, for the first time, all these MSS have been collated in a
complete book of the NT. The complete collation has brought many new
readings to light, some of which were only known through ancient
versions, and previously known and important readings have gained
additional support.”Very
few doctoral studies can claim to be magisterial, however, Wasserman’s
study rightly deserves such a title. He presents an exhaustive study of
the manuscript tradition of the Epistle of Jude. What this means in
practice is assembling and collating the readings from 560 Greek
manuscripts of this letter. The evidence is drawn from familiar papyrus
and uncial texts, but the ground-breaking aspect is the integration of
evidence from hundreds of minuscule manuscripts and lectionaries."—Paul
Foster, School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh in Expository Times, 118, 2007
"This
is obviously essential reading for those engaged in textual criticism
of the NT, and particularly of Jude. It is also very important for
anyone with a more general interest in Jude and, to a lesser extent, 2
Peter. Finally, it provides a helpful update on the current state of
textual criticism for all scholars of the NT who may (like the author of
this review) attend to the subject less than they should."—Terrance
Callan, The Athenaeum of Ohio, in Catholic Biblical Quarterly, 69, 2007
"Wasserman's
thesis is unsurpassed in accuracy and completeness. . . . W. gives the
reader the information necessary for checking the reliability of his
text-critical presentation of Jude. In fact, he gives accurate and
compete information about most text-critical problems. . . . I can only
congratulate the young doctor on a good piece of scholarship."—René
Kieffer, Uppsala University, in Journal of Theological Studies, 68, 2007
"Wasserman
has made available to the text critic a massive amount of manuscript
evidence for the book of Jude. The manuscript evidence is exhaustive and
the textual commentary thoughtful. Commentators and text critics must
deal with Wasserman’s evidence and textual conclusions in any future
work on this little epistle. One may apply the same criteria and arrive
at different conclusions, but no scholar can afford to dismiss
Wasserman’s thoughtful and measured text decisions. "—Stephen D. Patton,
North Greenville University in Review of Biblical Literature, April 2008
"It
cannot be said of many doctoral theses that they have made a major and
permanent contribution to human knowledge, but it can be said of this
one. what has been achieved in the course of this published version of a
doctoral dissertation at Lund University is quite incredible. The
author has examined and collated the text of Jude in 560 different
manuscripts, that is, in virtually all the continuous-text manuscripts
of the epistle. Thus a work has been done that has considerably advanced
our knowledge of the text of the New testament and will not need to be
repeated. such full collations previously had existed only for the
Apocalypse.”— P.J. Williams, Tyndale House in Themelios, 33: 1, 2008
"Wasserman’s
presentation of evidence as completely as possible is really laudable,
and the caution and reason of the author’s argument and the aim to
encourage the readers to decide independently point in a direction in
which textual criticism may get out of its ‘esoteric’ corner, and
textual history can also become an important aid for exegesis."— Jörg
Frey, University of Zurich in TC: A Journal of Biblical Literature 15, 2010