This work provides introductions to all the early papyri, plus the actual texts in readable printed Greek. "For nearly a generation, Philip Comfort's The Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts (Tyndale House, 2001) has been an almost indispensable tool for the many students and scholars who know biblical Greek but whose only acquaintance with the earliest Greek manuscripts is through the textual apparatus of the Nestle or UBS text.
This two-volume set replaces the previously published single volume Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts, as it contains many new manuscripts, updated research, and higher quality images of all manuscripts previously covered. In addition, it features a special section on determining the date of a manuscript. Volume 2 includes manuscripts from Papyrus 75-139 as well as from the uncials. Volume 1 includes manuscripts from Papyrus 1-72. This allows students and scholars to make well-informed decisions about the translation and interpretation of the New Testament. Comfort also provides an introduction to each manuscript that summarizes the content, date, current location, provenance, and other essential information, including the latest findings. These were the manuscripts read by the earliest Christians, which comprised their "New Testament." In his volumes, Philip Wesley Comfort bridges the gap between these extant copies and today's critical text by providing accurate transcriptions of the earliest New Testament manuscripts, with photographs on the facing pages so readers can see the works for themselves. The manuscripts that form the Greek New Testament are scattered throughout the world and are usually only accessible to scholars and professionals.
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