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THE USE OF TEXTUAL CRITICISM FOR THE INTERPRETATION OF PATRISTIC TEXTS: Seventeen Case Studies; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Abbreviations of General Works; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Transmission and Meaning; Part I. Textual Criticism; Chapter One -- Transmission Implications Regardingthe Authorship of Cyril of Jerusalem's Mystagogic Catecheses; Chapter Two -- The Transformation of Fulgentius of Ruspe in the Carolingian Age; Part II. Date of Composition; Chapter Three -- Bishop Severus and the Jewish Conversion on Minorca; Part III. Identifcation of Sources

Chapter Four -- Three Source Arguments for the Two-Way Material in Didache and BarnabasChapter Five -- The Question of Arian Interpolations in Methodius' Symposium; Part IV. Process of Composition; Chapter Six -- Possible Apollinarian Interpolations in the Short Recension of Athanasius' Contra Gentes and De Incarnatione; Chapter Seven -- The Passion of Cyprian in the So-Called ""Donatist Dossier"" of Wurzburg M. p. th. f. 33; Chapter Eight -- Transformation of the World: Victorinus of Pettau and the Ending of his Commentaries in Apocalypsim

Chapter Nine -- Authorial Commentary in Hilary of Poitiers' De SynodisChapter Ten -- De Sacramentis into De Mysteriis: Ambrose of Milan as Author and Editor; Part V. Reception; Chapter Eleven -- In Search of ""Le Texte Veritible"": The Rescension of Kephalaia Gnostica of Evagrius; Chapter Twelve -- The Syriac Transmission of Basil of Caesarea's On the Holy Spirit; Chapter Thirteen -- A History of the Interpretation of St. Cyprian's De unitate

Chapter Fourteen -- How Difficulties in Transmitting the Texts of Basil's Adversus Eunomium 3.1 and Maximus' Letter to Marinus Led to the Ris and Fall of Ferrara-FlorencePart VI. Textual Variants; Chapter Fifteen -- Conflating Deus and Dominus: The Ambiguous Transmission of the Acts of the Council of Aquileia; Chapter Sixteen -- Vellet or Vellent? A Textual Variant in Augustine's Enchiridion; Part VII. Textual Conjecture; Chapter Seventeen -- Correcting Leon: An Analysis of the Conjecture; Appendices; Appendix A: Textual Witnesses to the Didache

Appendix B: Modern Critical Editions of the DidacheAppendix C: BibleWorks Grammatical Search Analysis; Manuscripts, Editions, Versions, and Fragments of the Didache

This book examines the textual emendations to patristic writings to showcase the theological preoccupations of early Christian teachings. The debate around the formation of a unified church produced several key texts in the history of Christianity, and they are discussed in these scholarly essays. These seventeen chapters examine a shift in textual interpretations, notice a change in literary genre, and also identify ancient editing techniques. Two essays actually show an intentional change in a text to make it palatable to a different audience.