Do This in Remembrance of Me: The Disputed Words in the Lukan Institution Narrative (Luke 22.19b-20): An Historico-Exegetical, Theological and Sociological Analysis
in Library of New Testament Studies
Pages
256
Publisher
T&T Clark
Published
6/19/2006
ISBN-13
9780567042347
By examining the manner in which manuscripts function as windows into the social world of early Christianity, Billings provides a fruitful study of the longstanding gap in our knowledge of a significant textual problem represented by the Western Text of Luke.
- Table of Contents
- Abbreviations
- Introduction The existence and nature of the textual problem under examination is identified: although the vast majority of extant Greek manuscripts include Luke 22:19b-20, a small number of manuscripts (principally Codex Bezae) break off the narrative at the words "This is my body" omitting altogether the words over the cup and the Dominical command to perpetual remembrance. This produces two streams of text represented by the manuscript tradition - the "Longer Text" including Luke 22:19b-20 and the "Shorter Text" which omits this verse and a half.
- PART ONE - The Textual Problem
- Chapter One: The Nature of the Problem
- Chapter Two: A 'Western Non-Interpolation?'
- Chapter Three: The Codex Bezae (D, 05)
- PART TWO - Theories and Explanations
- Chapter Four: The Non-Lukan Origins of the Disputed Words
- Chapter Five: The Non-Lukan Theology of the Disputed Words
- Chapter Six: Passover, History, and Liturgy in the Disputed Words
- Chapter Seven: Erroneous Scribal Emendation
- Chapter Eight: The Disciplina Arcani
- PART THREE - A Sociological Analysis
- Chapter Nine: The Text as Window
- Chapter Ten: 'Thyestean Banquets' and 'Oedipodean Intercourse'
- Chapter Eleven: Why Codex Bezae was Altered: A Sociological Explanation
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index of References
- Index of Authors