This hardcover book arrived today.
H. A. G. Houghton is Reader in New Testament Textual Scholarship at the University of Birmingham, where he received his doctorate with a dissertation titled Augustine's Text of John. He is an ordained Anglican minister.
Thus far I've scanned the book from cover to cover. In the coming days I'll be sharing my initial impressions of this replacement for Metzger's classic volume of the same title. For now, I'll only mention that the book concludes with a 21-page Bibliography with 303 entries. A bibliography is essential in a book to provide credibility or explore topics further. It also situates a book within a wider professional or academic conversation. For what it's worth, authors/editors/co-editors receiving two or more entries in the bibliography include:
14:
- Elliott, J.K.
- Wassermann, Tommy
10:
- Aland, Barbara
- Aland, Kurt
8:
- Strutwolf, Holger
7:
- Wachtel, Klaus
6:
- Epp, Eldon J.
5:
- Fee, Gordon D.
- Houghton, H. A. G.
4:
- Jongkind, Dirk
- Gurry, Peter
3:
- Mink, Gerd
- Ross, J. M.
- Schmid, Ulrich
2:
- Fellows, Richard
- Fitzmeyer, Joseph
- Head, Peter
- Kilpatrick, George
- Malik, Peter
- Nongbri, Brent
- Osburn, Carroll
- Silva, Moisés
- Skeat, T.C.
- Williams, P.J.
To these I might add authors/editors associated with Southeastern Seminary:
- Maurice Robinson (1 entry)
- Paul Himes (1 entry) -- Paul was one of my doctoral students.
- Charles Quarles (2 entries)
- Yours truly (4 entries)
Oh, I also see that my Festschrift edited by Danny Akin and Thomas Hudgins is cited twice (essays by J. K. Elliott and Tommy Wassermann).
I'll talk about other features of this book later. I'm eager to see what's said about such passages as Matt. 5:22 and John 3:13!