The Message of Acts in Codex Bezae: A Comparison with the Alexandrian Tradition

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Jenny Read-Heimerdinger (University of Wales Trinity Saint David, UK) Josep Rius-Camps

The Message of Acts in Codex Bezae

A Comparison with the Alexandrian Tradition

Jenny Read-Heimerdinger (University of Wales Trinity Saint David, UK), Josep Rius-Camps

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English

T.& T.Clark Ltd
29 May 2025

Bible readings, selections & meditations; Christian theology

Series: The Library of New Testament Studies

His book is a comparison of the message of Acts transmitted by Codex Bezae with that of the more familiar Alexandrian text, represented by Codex Vaticanus. For each section of Acts, there is a side

by side translation of the Bezan and Alexandrian manuscripts, followed by a critical apparatus and, finally, a commentary that explores the differences

in the message of the two texts. It is concluded that the Bezan text, with its interest in internal Jewish affairs and its focus on the struggles of the early disciples to free themselves from their traditional Jewish expectations and to achieve, despite their mistakes, a more accurate understanding of their master's teaching, is the earlier of the two texts.

By: Jenny Read-Heimerdinger (University of Wales Trinity Saint David UK), Josep Rius-Camps
Imprint: T.& T.Clark Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 232mm, Width: 154mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 580g
ISBN: 9780567723147
ISBN 10: 0567723143
Series: The Library of New Testament Studies
Pages: 392
Publication Date: 29 May 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jenny Read-Heimerdinger is post-graduate supervisor at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David, UK Josep Rius-Camps is a Priest of the Diocese of Barcelona and is Emeritus Professor and a Research Fellow at the Facultat de Teologia de Catalunya in Barcelona, Spain.

Reviews for The Message of Acts in Codex Bezae: A Comparison with the Alexandrian Tradition

Mention in The Chronicle of Higher Education June 21, 2006 'I appreciate this book very much...I was fascinated by the author's many fresh readings and unusual interpretations of the book if Acts. I look forward to reading the second volume of this commentary.' Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism, 2006, Tobias Nicklas, Radboud University of Nijmegen ""This commentary is valuable in many respects, not least for its keen attention to linguistic detail, which will be valuable whatever one may think of the claim of Bezan priority."" - The Catholic Biblical Quarterly, 2005 * Catholic Biblical Quarterly *