The six biblical
manuscripts held by the Freer Gallery of Art in Washington
DC are historically significant artifacts for tracing
the early history of the transmission of the writings
that make up the New Testament and the Septuagint. The
manuscripts, all purchased in Egypt at the beginning
of the twentieth century by Charles Freer, date to the
third through fifth centuries and include codices of
the four Gospels, Deuteronomy and Joshua, the Psalms,
and the Pauline Epistles, as well as a Coptic codex
of the Psalms and a papyrus codex of the Minor Prophets,
which, until the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls,
was the earliest Greek manuscript of the Minor Prophets
known.
Edited by Larry
Hurtado, the ten essays in this volume are a notable
collection of fresh scholarship with long-term value
for the study of what is a small but highly valuable
treasure trove of biblical manuscripts. The contributors
are Malcolm Choat, Kent D. Clarke, Kristin De Troyer,
Timothy J. Finney, Dennis Haugh, Larry W. Hurtado, J.
Bruce Prior, Jean-François Racine, James R. Royse,
Ulrich Schmid, and Thomas A. Wayment.
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