The First Chapters: Dividing the Text of Scripture in Codex Vaticanus and Its Predecessors

by Charles E Hill and Charles E. Hill

The First Chapters uncovers the origins of the first paragraph or chapter divisions in copies of the Christian Scriptures. Its focal point is the magnificent, fourth-century Codex Vaticanus (Vat.gr. 1209; B 03), perhaps the single most significant ancient manuscript of the Bible, and the oldest material witness to what may be the earliest set of numbered chapter divisions of the Bible. The First Chapters tells the history of textual division, starting...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198836023
• ISBN13: 9780198836025
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.2" x 9.1"