Mike was presented with a Festschrift at SBL. Congratulations to him and the editors and all the contributors (see below). Dan Gurtner presenting the book to Mike (HT HH); the cover (HT JH); and the contents.
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Bart D. Ehrman
Contents
Foreword ix
Bart D. Ehrman
Abbreviations xv
Contributors xx
Introduction 1
Daniel M. Gurtner, Juan Hernández Jr. and Paul Foster
Part 1
Text Criticism
1 The Late Constantin Tischendorf and Codex Sinaiticus: New Testament
Textual Criticism without Them—An Exercise in Erasure History 15
Eldon Jay Epp
2 Patristic Evidence in the Apparatus Criticus of a Greek New Eldon Jay Epp
Testament 55
J.K. Elliott
3 Nestle-Aland 28 and the Revision of the Apocalypse’s Textual
History 71
Juan Hernández Jr.
Juan Hernández Jr.
4 The Edition of the Greek New Testament: A Plea and a Challenge 82
Jean-François Racine
Jean-François Racine
5 Codex 2193 and Family 1 in Mark 100
Amy Anderson
Amy Anderson
6 Water and Blood and Matthew 27:49: A Johannine Reading in the
Matthean Passion Narrative? 138
Daniel M. Gurtner
7 Of Fish and Men: Comparative, Text-Critical and Papyrological Remarks on Matthew 13:47–50 and the Gospel of Thomas 8 155
Christina M. Kreinecker
8 The Son’s Ignorance in Matthew 24:36: An Exercise in Textual and
Redaction Criticism 182
Daniel B. Wallace
9 A Fresh Analysis of P.Oxyrhynchus 1228 (𝔓22) as Artifact 210
Larry W. Hurtado
Larry W. Hurtado
10 Rightly Dividing the Word: Uncovering an Early Template for Textual Division in John’s Gospel 221
Charles E. Hill
11 Asterius ‘the Sophist’ of Cappadocia: Citations from the Gospel of John as Attested in the Theological Fragments 243
Roderic L. Mullen
Roderic L. Mullen
12 A Text-Critical Examination of the Johannine Variation 262
James R. Royse
James R. Royse
13 The Selection of Greek Manuscripts to be Included in the International Greek New Testament Project’s Edition of John in the Editio Critica Maior 291
David C. Parker, Klaus Wachtel, Bruce Morrill and Ulrich Schmid
14 A Longer Text of Paul: Romans to Galatians in Codex
Wernigerodensis (VL 58) 333
H.A.G. Houghton
15 A Short Textual Commentary on Galatians 349
Tommy Wasserman
Tommy Wasserman
16 The Text of Galatians 4:25a 376
Christopher M. Tuckett
Christopher M. Tuckett
17 On the Marcionite Prologues to the Letters of Paul 393
Dirk Jongkind
Part 2
Early Christianity
18 Polycarp in the Writings of Ignatius 415
Paul Foster
Paul Foster
19 The Devil’s in the Details: The Apocalyptic ‘Adversary’in the
Martyrdom of Polycarp and the Martyrs of Lyons 436
Paul Anthony Hartog
20 The Old Testament in the Apostolic Fathers 457
James Carleton Paget
James Carleton Paget
21 “Witnesses between You and Us”: The Role of the Letter-Carriers in
1 Clement 481
Peter M. Head
22 Defining Exceptions in the Didache 498
Clayton N. Jefford
23 Space, Body, and Church in Ignatius of Antioch: Toward a Spatial
Treatment 521
Harry O. Maier
24 Living as a “Christian”: Christian Ethos According to the Writings of Ignatius of Antioch 541 Tobias Nicklas
25 Scripture and Christology in the Preaching of Peter
(Kerygma Petri) 559 Wilhelm Pratscher
26On “Rotten Stones” and a Couple of Other Marginalia in the
Shepherd of Hermas 582
Joseph Verheyden
27 Anima naturaliter Christiana – Beobachtungen zum philosophischen und theologischen Hintergrund der Seelenlehre Tertullians 598
Holger Strutwolf
Holger Strutwolf
Bibliography: Michael W. Holmes 619
Bibliography 623
Index of Modern Authors 671
Index of Subjects 679