Linnea Thorp

Subject: New Testament Textual Criticism

Thesis Title: The Subscriptions to the Pauline Epistles: Their Development and Traditions

Thesis Description:

My thesis is about the subscriptions (end titles) to the Pauline Epistles in Greek New Testament manuscripts. I will transcribe and collate all extant subscriptions to illuminate their charactaristics and development. Once I have a comprehensive view of the textual variants I will investigate possible sources for the traditions found in the subscriptions to the Pauline Epistles and relate to where the epistle was written and/or who carried it or its amanuensis. I will also use the data to investigate the genealogy of manuscripts.

Supervisors and Institution(s): 

Prof. Hugh Houghton, ITSEE, University of Birmingham.

Prof. Thomas O'Loughlin, University of Nottingham

Dr. Catherine Smith, ITSEE, University of Birmingham

Dissertations:

• Linnea Arvedal, ‘The Subscriptions to 1 Timothy: An Investigation of Their Traditions and Development’ (Dissertation, Örebro School of Theology, 2016), http://www.academia.edu/26624579/The_Subscriptions_to_1_Timothy_An_Investigation_of_Their_Traditions_and_Development.
• Linnea Arvedal, ‘Good Guy Jesus by Josephus: An Analysis of the Forged Gospel of Josephus’ (Master's Disseration, Lund University, 2018).

Publications:

• To be published: Tommy Wasserman and Linnea Thorp, "The Tradition and Development of the Subscriptions to 1 Timothy" in

  Paratextual Features of New Testament Papyrology and Early Christian Manuscripts, ed. Stanley E. Porter, et al (TENT; Leiden-Boston: Brill).

Scholarly / Public Engagement Activities:

Year: 2017

• I presented a paper at SBL Annual Meeting in Boston together with Prof. Tommy Wasserman: "Whence 1 Timothy? Text and Traditions in the Subscriptions."

Other Research Interests:

• New Testament Exegesis
• Pauline Epistles
• Synoptic Gospels