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Garrick V. Allen , Words Are Not Enough: Paratexts, Manuscripts, and the Real New Testament (Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, 2024), pp. xviii + 198. $24.99/ £18.99

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Garrick V. Allen , Words Are Not Enough: Paratexts, Manuscripts, and the Real New Testament (Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, 2024), pp. xviii + 198. $24.99/ £18.99

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 June 2025

Bruce Chilton*
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Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, USA

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References

1 ‘Introduction to the Paratext’, trans. Marie Maclean, New Literary History 22/2 (1991), p. 261.

2 Marcel Jousse, ‘The Synoptic Problem, and the Past and Future of Gospel Studies’, in Werner H. Kelber and Bruce D. Chilton (eds), The Forgotten Compass: Marcel Jousse and the Exploration of the Oral World, Biblical Performance Criticism 19 (Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2022), p. 246.

3 The New Testament in the Original Greek - Introduction and Appendix (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1882), p. 31.