James Rendel Harris (1852-1941) was one of the most prolific and
influential New Testament scholars of his time. He opened new paths
in textual criticism, brought to light hitherto lost early
Christian writings and gathered major collections of Syriac
manuscripts and Greek papyri. An introductory essay sketches Rendel
Harris's life and works, while the rest of the book collects
published essays and unpublished lectures and letters written by
Rendel Harris over a span of 50 years, providing an essential
picture of his scholarship. The papers include a lively and
first-hand account of the controversies over the Hort-Westcott
Greek New Testament; the suggestion of using mathematical devices
for reconstructing New Testament autographs; the finding of the
only known Diatessaronic reading in a Greek New Testament; the
account of Rendel Harris's initial 'discovery' of testimonia
collections and his two last daring essays on the topic; one of the
first proposals of a wisdom hymn lying behind John's prologue; and,
finally, an entertaining guide for the manuscript hunter. The
personal correspondence at the end of the volume throws light on
the driving forces of Rendel Harris's scholarship and on his own
assessment of his work on the testimonia. The goal of his studies
was to draw attention to new or little-explored topics and to
provoke his colleagues to carry out fresh research on what they had
overlooked. This collection aims at the same goal.
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