Table of Contents

Introduction; Contributors; Abbreviations; Chronology; Part 1 The Earliest Christian Gospels and Their Transmission; 1 Early Christian Imagination and the Gospels, Sean Freyn; 2 The Four Gospels and the One Gospel of Jesus Christ, Martin Hengel; 3 Literacy, Liturgy and the Shaping of the New Testament Canon, Harry Gamble; 4 Early Christian Preference for the Codex, Graham Stanton; 5 The Diatessaron and the Fourfold Gospel, William L. Petersen; 6 The Nag Hammadi Gospels and the Fourfold Gospel, James Robinson; 7 The Latin Gospels, Martin McNamara; Part 2 The Chester Beatty Gospel Codex P45; 1 The Significance of the Chester Beatty Papyri in Early Church History, Barbara Aland; 2 Singular Readings in the Gospel Text of P45, J. K. Elliott; 3 P45 and the Textual History of the Gospel of Mark, Larry Hurtado; 4 The Chester Beatty Biblical Papyri, Charles Horton; Illustrations; Maps; Bibliography; Index