RT Article
T1 The Two-Volume Archetype of the Pauline Corpus
JF Journal for the study of Paul and his letters
VO 8
IS 1/2
SP 102
OP 126
A1 Stevens, Luke J. ca. 20./21. Jh.
LA English
PB Eisenbrauns
YR 2018
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1697706843
AB An extremely ancient edition of the Pauline corpus collecting 14 epistles into a pair of rolls, with Hebrews heading the second roll, arguably underlies the text and numbering in Codex Vaticanus. For such an arrangement, a plausible rationale is apparent, mainly involving considerations of length (perhaps further influenced by inclusion of 2 Peter as an epilogue). Furthermore, this lost two-volume edition can explain many difficulties surrounding the early evolution of the corpus. Transitioning to the single-volume codex format motivated the segregation of Hebrews from the public epistles into a distinct group alongside the four pastorals, with Galatians left still before the slightly longer Ephesians, and the resulting well-attested edition and its derivatives account for nearly all witnesses of the corpus. The exceptional ??46 stems from an imperfect attempt to replicate this edition from a two-roll exemplar, while several distinctive features of Marcion's Apostolicon derived independently from the two-volume edition. Both the titles of the epistles and the "in Ephesus" in Ephesians were absent in the original two-volume edition but were supplied when its contents were incorporated into a larger New Testament compilation. From this two-volume edition, likely assembled by Luke, all subsequent collections of Paul's epistles have arguably descended.
K1 Catholic Epistles
K1 John the Evangelist
K1 Marcionite Prologues
K1 Nomina Sacra
K1 Sahidic version
K1 canonical cdition
K1 seven-churches edition
DO 10.5325/jstudpaullett.8.1-2.0102