Roderic L. Mullen, The New Testament Text of Cyril of Jerusalem

This expanded dissertation has a goal of analyzing the textual affinities of the New Testament quotations made by the fourth century Bishop Cyril of Jerusalem.An attempt is made to sketch the evolution of the NT text in Roman Palestine by comparing what we learn of Cyril with past results obtained for Origen and Eusebius of Caesarea and Epiphanius of Gaza and Salamis.In summary, Cyril's NT text is mixed and varies from book to book but is related primarily to the later Alexandrian witnesses and secondarily to the Byzantine witnesses.His text of Mark is related to the Koridethi Gospels (ms ) and the miniscules 13, 28, and 565, as also are the last seventeen chapters of Matthew.Overall, Cyril's text is less Alexandrian than that of Origen or Eusebius, and it is somewhat similar to that of Epiphanius in character. The Data2. The quotations that Mullen uses for analysis are extracted from Cyril's Catechetical Lectures and the Procatechesis, his Epistle to Constantine, and the Sermon on the Paralytic.The Mystagogical Lectures are rejected as spurious, along with many other pseudonymous works that were easier to cull out.Those genuine works were all composed in the neighborhood of 350 C.E.The critical editions and the numerous manuscript sources for the texts are named by Mullen, but only one manuscript date is mentioned, that being of the tenth century.Cyril's citation habits are evaluated and found to be generally accurate and normally from a written source, not just from memory.3. Mullen lists all the New Testament quotations found in the documents just named, giving the full text and reference, but without context.In addition, Mullen cites 250 ambiguous quotations, for which the biblical passage being referred to could not be uniquely identified.These are listed separately and not analyzed further.