Bible Review

After I had completed this article, Dr. Klaus Wachtel of the Institut für Neutestamentliche Textforschung, in Munster, Germany, kindly sent me proofs of his outstanding forthcoming article, to be published in ZPE, “p. 64–67: Fragmente des Matthäusevangeliums aus dem 1. Jahrhundert?” Wachtel provides a very detailed critical appraisal of Thiede’s theory and reaches broadly similar conclusions to those set out above.

I owe this point to Dr. David Parker, University of Birmingham.

G. Cavallo and H. Maehler, Greek Bookhands of the Early Byzantine Period, A.D. 300–800 (London: Institute of Classical Studies, University of London, 1987).

Richerche sulla maiuscola biblica, 2 vols., Studi e testi di papirologia 2 (Florence: Le Monnier, 1967).

“Papyrus Magdalen Greek 17 (Gregory-Aland p64): A Reappraisal,” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik (ZPE) 105 (1995), pp. 13–20. This article has been reprinted with minor corrections in Tyndale Bulletin 46 (1995), pp. 29–42.

Bernhard Mayer, ed., Christen und Christliches in Qumran? Eichstätter Studien, new ser., vol. 32 (Regensburg, Germany: Pustet, 1992).

Carsten Thiede’s publications on 7Q5 are conveniently listed in the select bibliography to his book, The Earliest Gospel Manuscript? The Qumran Fragment 7Q5 and Its Significance for New Testament Studies (Exeter: Paternoster, 1992), p. 79.

In “Text and Artifact: Two Monologues?” (in a forthcoming volume of essays, ed. Larry Silberstein and David Small [New York Univ. Press]), I argue that the main purpose of 2 Samuel is to acquit David of charges of serial murder, of which he was very likely guilty—which implies that the book stems from David’s the early part of Solomon’s.