Peter Montoro is a doctoral candidate at ITSEE in the University of Birmingham, working on the textual transmission of Chrysostom’s HomiliesonRomans. He has provided research assistance on a number of projects, including the Tyndale House Greek New Testament, jointly published by Crossway and Cambridge University Press (2017). He serves as the preaching pastor of Westside Baptist Church in Bremerton, Washington.
Indirect evidence, in the form of early translations (‘versions’) and biblical quotations in ancient writers (‘patristic citations’), offers important testimony to the history and transmission of the New Testament. In addition to their value as early evidence for the Greek New Testament, versions have a textual tradition of their own which is often of considerable historical, theological and ecclesial significance. This volume brings together a series of original contributions on this topic, which was the focus of the Eleventh Birmingham Colloquium on the Textual Criticism of the New Testament. The research described here illustrates not just the ongoing importance and variety of this material, but also the way in which it may shape the theory and practice of text-critical scholarship and lead to new insights about this vast and rich tradition.