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Alpha was founded as the Project's Biblical Studies journal, to accommodate researches for which there was insufficient room in its older sister journal, Warring States Papers. The first volume of Alpha took too narrow a view of its own scope, which later expanded to include the Hebrew Bible and the Homeric Corpus. Volume 1
takes up the principal Gospels and other early sources for the teachings
of Jesus. It notes evidence for stratification in Mark, as a first
step in identifying the earliest and thus most authoritative layer
of that text. It finds no need to posit a common source ("Q")
for Matthew and Luke, and instead argues for mutual contact between
them. Mandaean and Gospel echoes of John the Baptist are compared,
the work of William O Walker Jr on interpolations in Paul is continued,
and a foundation is laid for the introduction of a new stylistic difference
test in Alpha v2. Front Matter
Language, Ambience, and Methodology 01 Early Witnesses 08 The Post-Apostolic Transition 23 Later Texts and Tendencies 32 End Matter
*Preparatory for the introduction of the BIRD stylistic difference text in v2 | |
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