The First Edition of the New Testament

Argues that the New Testament is not the product of a centuries-long process of development. Its history, Trobisch finds, is the history of a book--an all Greek Christian bible--published as early as the second century C.E. and intended by its editors to be read as a whole. Trobisch claims that this bible achieved wide circulation and formed the basis of all surviving manuscripts of the New Testament.

First sentence: TODAY THE CHRISTIAN BIBLE IS A BOOK THAT IS PRINTED, distributed, and sold very much like any other book.

Year

2000

Language

English

Publisher

Oxford University Press, USA

Editions

1

Pages

175

ISBN

9780195112405

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