Review: Karl Jaroš. Das Neue Testament nach den ältesten griechischen Handschriften: Die handschriftliche Überlieferung des Neuen Testaments vor Codex Sinaiticus und Codex Vaticanus

Abstract

This CD - ROM consists of a single PDF file which is 5,163 pages long (331.1 MB). One immediately looks for a contents page, but there is none (none that I could find at any rate). I hoped then to negotiate it by the running titles. But th ere are none. I then found that the papyri are arranged by putative date not by number, which means that unless you work through the introduction or run a search for the number you will take a long time to find any single transcription. "For each papyrus there are an introduction, images of varying types and quality, a diplomatic transcription in upper case letters, a diplomatic transcription in upper case letters with missing text restored and chapter and verse numbers, a transcription with the text accented and the difference between missing and present text shown by the use of black and red font colours, and finally a version of the reconstruction in German, also in black and red, as an attempt to show what letters of the Greek are present."(pg 1)