The Freer Biblical Manuscripts: Fresh Studies of an American Treasure TroveLarry W. Hurtado The six biblical manuscripts that reside in the Freer Gallery of Art in Washington DC are historically significant artifacts for tracing the early history of the transmission of the writings that make up the New Testament and the Septuagint. The manuscripts, all purchased in Egypt at the beginning of the twentieth century by Charles Freer, date to the third through fifth centuries and include codices of the four Gospels, Deuteronomy and Joshua, the Psalms, and the Pauline Epistles, as well as a Coptic codex of the Psalms and a papyrus codex of the Minor Prophets, which, until the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, was the earliest Greek manuscript of the Minor Prophets known. The ten essays in this volume are a notable collection of fresh scholarship with long-term value for the study of what is a small but highly valuable treasure trove of biblical manuscripts. The contributors are Malcolm Choat, Kent D. Clarke, Kristin De Troyer, Timothy J. Finney, Dennis Haugh, Larry W. Hurtado, J. Bruce Prior, Jean-Francois Racine, James R. Royse, Ulrich Schmid, and Thomas A. Wayment. Book jacket. |
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... purchased four of the six manuscripts in December 1906 from an Egyptian antiquities dealer in Cairo. These four Greek parchment manuscripts include a codex of the four Gospels commonly dated to the early fifth or late fourth century, an ...
... purchased four of the six manuscripts in December 1906 from an Egyptian antiquities dealer in Cairo. These four Greek parchment manuscripts include a codex of the four Gospels commonly dated to the early fifth or late fourth century, an ...
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... purchasing these four manuscripts in December 1906, Freer brought them to Michigan and sometime in 1907 drew them to the attention of Francis Kelsey, a senior academic figure in the University of Michigan. In turn, Kelsey quickly ...
... purchasing these four manuscripts in December 1906, Freer brought them to Michigan and sometime in 1907 drew them to the attention of Francis Kelsey, a senior academic figure in the University of Michigan. In turn, Kelsey quickly ...
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... purchases, and vintage photo- graphs. In marking the centenary of Freer's 1906 acquisition of what comprises one of the oldest collections of ancient Greek biblical manuscripts written on vellum, this essay is offered to redress to some ...
... purchases, and vintage photo- graphs. In marking the centenary of Freer's 1906 acquisition of what comprises one of the oldest collections of ancient Greek biblical manuscripts written on vellum, this essay is offered to redress to some ...
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... purchases (including brief discussions of the Washington Manuscripts), the work of Lawton and Merrill deals more broadly with Freer as an international collector of art. Both volumes serve as fine, and beautifully illustrated ...
... purchases (including brief discussions of the Washington Manuscripts), the work of Lawton and Merrill deals more broadly with Freer as an international collector of art. Both volumes serve as fine, and beautifully illustrated ...
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... purchased adjacent building lots within a new Detroit suburb in close proximity to their Peninsular Car Company plant in 1887. Whereas hecker immediately began construction of an opulent limestone mansion to house his large family and ...
... purchased adjacent building lots within a new Detroit suburb in close proximity to their Peninsular Car Company plant in 1887. Whereas hecker immediately began construction of an opulent limestone mansion to house his large family and ...
Contents
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the | 75 |
FMP Freer Minor Prophets | 87 |
a Quantitative | 123 |
the use and nonuse of Nomina Sacra in the freer Gospel of matthew | 147 |
Was codex Washingtonianus a copy or a new text? | 167 |
the corrections in the freer Gospels codex | 185 |
reassessing the palaeography and codicology of the freer | 227 |
the scribal characteristics of the freer pauline codex | 251 |
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contributors | 303 |
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