Jerusalem Colophon

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The Jerusalem Colophon is a colophon found in a number of New Testament manuscripts, including Λ (039), 20, 164, 215, 262, 300, 376, 428, 565, 686, 718, 1071, etc. The colophon states that the manuscript was "copied and corrected from the ancient exemplars from Jerusalem preserved on the holy mountain" (according to the majority of scholars, it was Mount Athos). The text of the manuscripts that share the colophon are not necessarily textually related (though a surprising number belong to Group Λ (039), 164, 262, and perhaps some of the many manuscripts Wisse does not classify). In many cases the colophon was copied down from document to document independent of the text. The majority of these manuscripts are representative of the Byzantine text-type. The meaning of the colophon was discussed by K. Lake.[1] Lake holds that the "Holy Mountain" is Mount Sinai.

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  • K. Aland and B. Aland, The Text of the New Testament, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, Grand Rapids, Michigan 1995.
  • B.M. Metzger, The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption, and Restoration, Oxford University Press, New York, Oxford 1980.

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  1. ^ K. Lake, Journal of Theological Studies, Vol. I, No. 3 (April, 1900), p. 445.
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