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Scripture & Textual History
Before the Bible Was Bound
Canon, Manuscripts, Textual Witnesses, and the Making of the English Bible
631 Pages58 SectionsKJV Scripture text
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A focused study
under Scripture.
A sweeping study of how the biblical canon was recognized, how the Hebrew and Greek texts were transmitted, and how Scripture came into the hands of English readers.
Written by Jeff C. Edwards, this work stands independently within the wider Extreme Hermeneutics catalog and applies a Scripture-defines-Scripture method to its central subject.
MAJOR SUBJECTS
Old and New Testament witnesses
Textual transmission and variants
The making of the English Bible
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Inside
Before the Bible Was Bound.
The manuscript’s complete major heading structure is presented below.
- 01
Introduction
- 02
Chapter 1 - The God Who Speaks
- 03
Chapter 2 - From Revelation to Written Scripture
- 04
Chapter 3 - Prophets, Apostles, and Authorized Writings
- 05
Chapter 4 - Canon: Recognizing, Not Creating, Scripture
- 06
Chapter 5 - Moses, the Law, and the Beginning of Israel’s Scripture
- 07
Chapter 6 - The Law, the Prophets, and the Writings
- 08
Chapter 7 - The Hebrew Bible in the Days of Christ
- 09
Chapter 8 - The Apocrypha and the Question of Authority
- 10
Chapter 9 - The Septuagint and the Greek Old Testament
- 11
Chapter 10 - The Masoretic Text
- 12
Chapter 11 - The Dead Sea Scrolls
- 13
Chapter 12 - The Samaritan Pentateuch
- 14
Chapter 13 - The Cairo Geniza and Other Hebrew Witnesses
- 15
Chapter 14 - Masoretic Text, Septuagint, and Dead Sea Scrolls Compared
- 16
Chapter 15 - Can We Trust the Old Testament Text?
- 17
Chapter 16 - The Apostolic Writings and the Early Churches
- 18
Chapter 17 - The Four Gospels and the Apostolic Witness
- 19
Chapter 18 - Paul’s Letters and the Circulation of the Epistles
- 20
Chapter 19 - The General Epistles and Revelation
- 21
Chapter 20 - Early Canon Lists and Church Recognition
- 22
Chapter 21 - Books Questioned for a Time
- 23
Chapter 22 - Books Read but Not Received as Scripture
- 24
Chapter 23 - Councils, Canon Lists, and the Recognition of the New Testament
- 25
Chapter 24 - Why the New Testament Canon Closed
- 26
Chapter 25 - Scrolls, Codices, Papyri, and Parchment
- 27
Chapter 26 - How Ancient Manuscripts Were Copied
- 28
Chapter 27 - Papyri, Uncials, Minuscules, and Lectionaries
- 29
Chapter 28 - The Great Codices: Vaticanus, Sinaiticus, Alexandrinus, and Others
- 30
Chapter 29 - The Early Papyri: Chester Beatty, Bodmer, and Other Witnesses
- 31
Chapter 30 - Ancient Versions: Latin, Syriac, Coptic, and Others
- 32
Chapter 31 - Quotations from the Church Fathers
- 33
Chapter 32 - Older Does Not Always Mean Better
- 34
Chapter 33 - Textual Families and Transmission Streams
- 35
Chapter 34 - Can We Trust the New Testament Text?
- 36
Chapter 35 - The Myth of the Lost Books of the Bible
- 37
Chapter 36 - The Gnostic Gospels and Other False Writings
- 38
Chapter 37 - The Alexandrian Codices and the Debate Over Textual Trust
- 39
Chapter 38 - Westcott, Hort, and the Rise of the Modern Critical Text
- 40
Chapter 39 - Textus Receptus, Majority Text, and Critical Text
- 41
Chapter 40 - Textual Variants: What They Are and Why They Matter
- 42
Chapter 41 - The Longer Ending of Mark and the Woman Taken in Adultery
- 43
Chapter 42 - The Johannine Comma and 1 John 5:7
- 44
Chapter 43 - Textual Differences and the Deity of Christ
- 45
Chapter 44 - What Does Preservation Mean in Manuscript History?
- 46
Chapter 45 - From Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek into the Languages of the Nations
- 47
Chapter 46 - The Latin Bible and the Medieval Church
- 48
Chapter 47 - Wycliffe and the First English Bible Movement
- 49
Chapter 48 - Tyndale and the Cost of an English Bible
- 50
Chapter 49 - Coverdale, Matthew’s Bible, the Great Bible, and the Geneva Bible
- 51
Chapter 50 - The King James Bible
- 52
Chapter 51 - Printed Greek Texts and the English Bible
- 53
Chapter 52 - Modern Bible Versions and Translation Philosophy
- 54
Chapter 53 - Why Bible Versions Differ
- 55
Chapter 54 - The Bible in the Hands of the People
- 56
Closing Word
- 57
Glossary of Key Terms
- 58
Selected Annotated Bibliography
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Before the Bible Was Bound
631 pages · 58 sections · by Jeff C. Edwards