This book investigates the biblical text of Codex Washingtonianus, also called the Freer Gospels, Codex W and GA 032. There are numerous distinctive features in this early and important gospel book, including the differing affiliation of its text in separate sections (known as block mixture). The study examines and evaluates the blocks of text in this manuscript through the extensive application of the technique of quantitative analysis, which sheds light on the textual relationship between Codex Washingtonianus and other gospel manuscripts. Paratextual features, orthographic variations, and singular readings are also described and analysed. This book thus functions as an investigation of the phenomenon of block mixture in itself as well as the character of this particular manuscript, confirming many of the findings of previous scholarship and providing new data from the context of modern research.
Acknowledgements .................................................................. ix
List of Abbreviations ................................................................ xi
Introduction .............................................................................. 1
State of Research ............................................................... 3
Outline and Methodology ................................................ 19
Chapter One. Mining Codex W: Description, Observations, Transcriptions
......................................................................... 23
Description ...................................................................... 23
Significant Variants ......................................................... 37
Provenance ..................................................................... 41
Transcriptions ................................................................. 45
Chapter Two. Methodology of the Quantitative Analysis ......... 47
Chapter Three. Results of the Quantitative Analysis ................ 59
Global Quantitative Analysis ........................................... 60
Quantitative Analysis by Gospel ...................................... 63
Quantitative Analysis by Sanders’s Textual Blocks ........... 69
Quantitative Analysis by Quire ........................................ 79
Conclusion .................................................................... 110
Chapter Four. Pre-genealogical Analysis: Text und Textwert ... 113
Chapter Five. An Analysis of Segmentation and Punctuation . 119
Conclusion .................................................................... 128
Chapter Six. A Study of the Nomina Sacra, Numerals, and Other
Features ..........................................................................131
Nomina Sacra................................................................. 131
Numerals ....................................................................... 137
Ligatures and Diacritical Marks ..................................... 141
Conclusion .................................................................... 144
Chapter Seven. Orthographical Patterns in W ....................... 145
Chapter Eight. An Analysis of Singular Readings and Corrections
in W...................................................................... 151
Singular Readings .......................................................... 151
Corrections .................................................................... 160
Conclusion ............................................................................ 165
Appendix One. Variants where Corrections Affect QA Results ..171
Appendix Two. Significant Singular Readings in W ............... 185
Bibliography ......................................................................... 211
Index .................................................................................... 223
