P. Comfort's new book

Nichael Cramer nichael at sover.net
Wed May 5 15:03:26 EDT 1999


George Blaisdell wrote:

> >From: Jim West
> 
> >P. Comfort's new book, "The Complete Text of the Earliest NT Manuscripts"
> >has arrived and it is really a tremendous thing!
> >
> >mss include p1 - 104 (with some lacunae), and some other early uncials.  
> >The
> >book offers the mss in P order.  Some photos are included as well as a fine
> >introduction. 649 pp. of great resources for the textual critic and NT 
> >scholar.
> >
> >The transcriptions are really excellent and are exact!, including
> >abbreviations within the papyri themselves.
> >
> >Thought some of you would like to know that this book is now available.
> 
> Jim ~ Are the texts themselves in the uncial?  Are they reprods in a modern 
> font?  Or are they photocopies of the originals?
> 
> More info!  Please!!  :-)

Likewise, are these Comfort's transcriptions?  If not whose?

Similarly, how does the book signify uncertain letters; conjectural
emendations; disagreements among editors; etc?

(I haven't seen Comfort's book --although I look forward to it-- but this
is often a problem with books of "transcription".  They often present
the included readings as finished and exact with no indication of
underlying problems.)

Thanks

Nichael

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