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School of Theology and Religious Studies

The Bezan Text of Acts: A Contribution of Discourse Analysis to Textual Criticism

by Jenny Read-Heimerdinger

The Bezan ('Western') text of Acts is traditionally dismissed as the work of an enthusiastic and fanciful scribe who embellished the original text represented by the Alexandran manuscripts. This study compares the language of Codex Bezae with that of Codex Sinaiticus and Codex Vaticanus, using the approach of discourse analysis to re-assess how variant readings have arisen.(Sheffield Acacademic Press, 2003)0-8264-6212-X