Scribal “Faithfulness” and the Text-Critical Imaginary

Abstract

In the summer of 2016 during a trip to Dublin, I wandered into the Chester Beatty for the first time.I walked up the stairs and, at the top, turned into the cool, dim light of a manuscript exhibit.I turned left, and left again, unexpectedly finding myself face to face with a page from Philippians 2 -the first papyrus of a New Testament text I ever saw in person.The kind man who was working in the exhibit noticed my awe and offered to bring me a stool.That page is part of Chester Beatty Biblical Papyrus II, also known as P 46 -a second-or third-century codex of Pauline epistles.Less awed by the text of P 46 was Günther Zuntz, who claimed in The Text of the Epistles that, 3 See

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