Abstract
In many ways this is a non-standard collection of an author’s works. First, as Epp notes in the editor’s preface, it is Fee’s doctoral supervisor editing a former student’s work. Second, the first entry in this volume of collected works is itself a book. That first entry is the reprint of Fee’s major work on
It seems somewhat unnecessary to review the contents of Fee’s now classic monograph and studies. The reprinting of them attests to their status in the discipline. It is worth noting that the monograph itself is based on Fee’s doctoral thesis accepted at the Graduate School of Religion at the University of Southern California in 1966 (p. 5). Despite being written more than half a century ago, the book retains many learned and perennially important insights. One of his more startling conclusions after analysing the textual profile of P66 was the following. “What this all seems to suggest is not that P66 now comes forward to give the earliest witness to readings heretofore judged as “Byzantine”, but that the Byzantine MSS reflect to a greater, and eventually more consistent, degree the scribal tendencies that are already to be found in the second century’ (p. 83).
The ten essays that constitute the second part of the volume look at textual corrections in Papyrus Bodmer II, the role of Codex Sinaiticus for determining textual relationships pertaining to the fourth gospel, and numbers individual studies relating to textual variants and the methods of textual criticism particularly in regard to the Gospel of John. In his role as editor, Epp has actively brought together helpful lists of Fee’s text-critical writings, as well as a bibliography of editions and studies on