Texte zu den Evangelien und zur Apostelgeschichte
The New Wettstein is the only complete and continuous commentary on all New Testament passages with Hellenistic material ordered chronologically and philologically. The volume on St. Mark’s Gospel presents some 1300 texts, documenting that there are also numerous Hellenistic parallels to the story of Jesus on both a formal and a substantive level.
The first part-volume of the New Wettstein on the Gospel of Matthew covers chapters 1–10. Special emphasis is on the childhood history and the texts on the Sermon on the Mount. Here it is remarkable how many striking and interesting parallels exist in the history of religion. They document how deeply even the Jewish Christian Gospel of Matthew was embedded in the religious and philosophical debates of Hellenism.
This "New Wettstein" volume on the Gospel of Matthew comprises chapters 11–28 and provides around 2,000 newly prepared texts from the Greek world and Hellenism. Together with the first volume, research is thus presenting a unique collection of comparative texts. This allows the Gospel of Matthew to be analyzed comprehensively on a cultural history, social, philosophical, and theological level.
This second volume of the Gospels contains approx. 1,600 comparative texts on the Gospel of John on the basis of the sources in J. J. Wettstein (ed.), Novum Testamentum Graecum, Amsterdam 1751/52. In addition to the most important parallels of Wettstein, numerous other texts are included.
All comparative texts as a rule are extensively cited in German, and they are situated within their context. The central parallels are added either in their Greek or Latin original text. Modern standard editions serve as the textual basis so that the passages cited can easily be found by the user. Each text is preceded by a short introduction which clarifies the context of the passage. Finally, notes are made available to the reader which allow a better understanding of the text cited.
The volume concludes with a supplementary listing of the cited Greek and Latin authors and their works, an index of passages, as well as indexes of concepts and subjects.
Volume I/1 of the Neuer Wettstein (Texts on the Synoptic Gospels) is being prepared at the Corpus Hellenisticum in Halle and will presumably be published in 2002. Volume III (Acts) will conclude the complete work.
