Lesson 1
Collins J.J. and Evans C. (eds): Christian Beginnings and the Dead Sea Scrolls (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2006) 132 pages
Johnson, W.A., “The Ancient Book,” ed. Bagnall, R.S., Oxford Handbook of Papyrology (Oxford: OUP, 2009), p. 256-282. 26 pages
Bausi, A. et al., eds., Comparative Oriental Manscript Studies: An Introduction (Hamburg: Tredition, 2015). Introduction, sections 3.6 Coptic Manuscripts (p.44-6), 3.9 Greek Manuscripts (p. 51-3), and 3.10 Hebrew Manuscripts (p. 54-55). Codicology Section 1 (p. 69-88). Codicology - section 5 Coptic Codicology (p. 137-53), section 7 – Greek Codicology (p. 187-234).82 pages
Lesson 2
Cerquiglini, B., Trans. Wing, B., In Praise of the Variant: A Critical History of Philology (Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1999). 93 pages
Nichols. S. G., “Introduction: Philology in a Manuscript Culture,” Speculum, Vol. 65, No. 1. (1990), p. 1-10 10 pages
Lesson 3
Bausi, A. et al., eds., Comparative Oriental Manscript Studies: An Introduction (Hamburg: Tredition, 2015). Chapter 3, section 2 (p. 328 – 362). 34 pages
Ehrman, B. D. and Holmes, M. W. eds., The Text of the New Testament in Contemporary Research: Essays on the Status Quaestionis (2nd ed.; New Testament Tools, Studies and Documents 42; Leiden: Brill, 2013). Chapter 1. The Papyrus Manuscripts of the New Testament – Eldon Jay Epp. Chapter 2. The Majuscule Manuscripts of the New Testament – David C. Parker. Chapter 23. From “Original Text” to “Initial Text”: The Traditional Goal of the New Testament Textual Criticism in Contemporary Discussion.120 pages
Lesson 4
Carr, D. M. The Formation of the Hebrew Bible: A New Reconstruction (Oxford and New York: OUP, 2011). Part One. Methodological Prologue (p.13- 153) 140 pages
Lesson 5
Parker, D. C., The Living Text of the Gospels (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997). (P.49-174) 125 pages
Lesson 6
Gamble, H.Y., Books and Readers in the Early Church (New Haven: YUP, 1995).
Part II. The Early Christian Book
Part IV. Early Christian Libraries.100 pages
Robinson, J. M. (ed.), The Nag Hammadi Library (Leiden: Brill, 1988). Ca. 20 pages
Lesson 7
Bausi, A. et al., eds., Comparative Oriental Manscript Studies: An Introduction (Hamburg: Tredition, 2015). Chapter 3 Textual Criticism, section 3.14, The Nag Hammadi Codices. Textual Fluidity in Coptic (p.419 – 423). 4 pages
Robinson, J. M. (ed.), The Nag Hammadi Library (Leiden: Brill, 1988). TBA Ca. 40 pages
Lesson 8
Nils A. Dahl: The 'Euthalian Apparatus' and the Affiliated 'Argumenta'. In: Nils A Dahl: Studies in Ephesians (WUNT 131), (Tübingen: Mohr 2000). (p. 231-275) 44 pages
Lesson 9
Tarald Rasmussen: "The Biblical Canon of the Lutheran Reformation", in: E. Thomassen (Ed.): Canon and Canonicity, (Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2010). (p. 143–158) 15 pages
Lesson 10
Ehrman, B. D. and Holmes, M. W. eds., The Text of the New Testament in Contemporary Research: Essays on the Status Quaestionis (2nd ed.; New Testament Tools, Studies and Documents 42; Leiden: Brill, 2013).
Chapter 24. Modern Critical Editions and Apparatuses of the Greek New Testament – Juan Hernández Jr.
Chapter 28. The Text as Window: New Testament Manuscripts and the Social History of Early Christianity – Bart. D. Ehrman
50 pages
Lesson 11
Robin Griffith-Jones, "From John’s Gospel to Dan Brown: The Magdalen Code,” in The Oxford Handbook of the Reception of the Bible, (Oxford: OUP, 2011), 369-382 13 pages
Lesson 12
Summary session, no compulsory reading required.