The First Edition of the New Testament

by David Trobisch

Book Overview

The First Edition of the New Testament is a groundbreaking book that argues that the New Testament is not the product of a centuries-long process of development. Its history, David 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199897972
• ISBN13: 9780199897971
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"