Some Observations on the Relevance of the "Early Byzantine Glossary" of Paul for the Textual Criticism of the Corpus Paulinum

In 2005 a lexicon on the Pauline letters received a critical edition under the title of "Ein fruhbyzantinisches Glossar." This glossary proves to be a valuable witness to the Greek text of Paul and testifies to a good and old text. In addition it sheds light on the genesis of textual variants in the copying process of the New Testament text.