The Freer Biblical Manuscripts: Fresh Studies of an American Treasure Trove
Larry W. Hurtado (Editor)
ISBN	9781589832084
Status	Available
Price:	$34.95
Binding	Paperback
Publication Date	October 2006

The six biblical manuscripts that reside in the Freer Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., 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.

Larry W. Hurtado is Professor of New Testament Language, Literature & Theology and Director of the Centre for the Study of Christian Origins at the University of Edinburgh. His publications include The Earliest Christian Artifacts: Manuscripts and Christian Origins (Eerdmans, 2006) and How on Earth Did Jesus Become a God? Historical Questions about Earliest Devotion to Jesus (Eerdmans, 2005).

“In 1906 Charles Lang Freer bought some biblical manuscripts in Egypt to take home to the USA, the best known among which is codex W(ashington) of the Gospels. To commemorate this event Larry Hurtado, who did his PhD on the text of Mark in W, edited the present collection of specialist studies. Although the Freer manuscripts were overshadowed by the discoveries of the Chester Beatty and Bodmer papyri and by Nag Hammadi and the Dead Sea Scrolls, he attempts to revive interest in them. … The essays are accessible and well written; the book as a whole is very attractive for specialists in the field.”
— Pieter J. Lalleman, Journal for the Study of the New Testament

Hardback edition available from Brill Academic Publishers (www.brill.nl)

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