Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Abbreviations xiii
6. Introduction 1
7. PART ONE
8. 1 Critical Scholarship in Roman Egypt and the Power of the Classical Canon 35
9. 2 Heresiology, Philology, and the Encounter with Marcion’s Apostolikon 63
10. PART TWO
11. 3 Making 3 Corinthians Apocryphal in the Eighteenth-Century Republic of Letters 101
12. 4 Imagining the “Critical” with the Ancient Alexandrians 135
13. Conclusion 169
14. Notes 177
15. Bibliography 215
16. Index of Ancient Sources 247
17. Index of Manuscripts and Other Textual Objects 251
18. Index of Subjects 255