The Complete Text of the Earliest New Testament Manuscripts
Dr. Philip Comfort has been responsible for provoking interest in, and study of, the earliest Greek New Testament manuscripts . . . especially among a readership, which might otherwise not be exposed to this branch of scholarship. His latest book, co-edited with David Barrett, aims to present, and thereby to popularize, the transcriptions of, and introductions to, over fifty of the earliest witnesses to the Greek New Testament text. If the editors succeed in stimulating a wider appreciation and further study of the text of these manuscripts, their task will have been amply rewarded. I wish them well in their endeavor.  --J. Keith Elliott, University of LeedsFor anyone who works in New Testament textual criticism "from the student who is barely acquainted with the apparatus to the scholar who examines manuscript facsimilies" The Complete Text of the Earliest New Testament Manuscripts fills a great need. Comfort and Barrett have made accessible in one volume what up till now has been scattered in scores of different books and articles. If all this volume did was to display the text of the New Testament papyri, its publication would be justified. But there are also plates of more than three dozen manuscripts as well as extensive discussions of the dates, provenance, and discovery of the various papyri. . . . This tome makes an important contribution to the study of the text of the New Testament.  --Dan Wallace, Dallas Theological SeminaryStudents and others will be grateful to the editors for having made available a composite edition of widely dispersed texts, now conveniently assembled in one volume.  --Bruce M. Metzger, Princeton Theological SeminaryThis is an excellent tool for beginning students of textual criticism and an essential reference work for serious exegetes.  --Norman Ericson, Wheaton CollegeThis is one of the most important works of text criticism to come along in years. It is an indispensable tool for anyone interested in serious study of the more important New Testament manuscripts and will become a standard reference work in the field. It is one of those works that will still be valuable decades from now.  --Grant R. Osborne, Trinity Evangelical Divinity SchoolTo provide a serviceable guide to the manuscript evidence of the earliest New Testament textual witnesses is laudable aim of this one-of-a-kind volume. It deserves a warm welcome, and will be most useful, not least because of the photos of the leading families of evidence.  --Ralph P. Martin, Fuller Theological Seminary