Text and Story

"Rodgers' well-researched arguments should encourage exegetes to benefit from the insights of textual criticism, and text critics to harness the current approach of narrative criticism. His is a timely and carefully paced examination that demonstrates that much Christian teaching and church history may be unearthed by the judicious use of a critical apparatus to a Greek New Testament."

-J. K. Elliott

University of Leeds



"Although Text and Story is not intentionally written as a textbook on textual criticism, Peter Rodgers offers enough technical material on this discipline to demonstrate how it enables us to understand certain textual variants in the New Testament. But Rodgers is not afraid to question or depart from some of the text-critical conclusions of previous and current scholars. The unique and somewhat courageous attribute of the book is that the author finds possible solutions in the narrative features of the texts in question and in Old Testament quotations, allusions, and narratives that lie behind them but that may have been forgotten, changed, and/or omitted during the process of transmission."

-Arthur G. Patzia

Fuller Theological Seminary



"Seasoned parish priest and New Testament text critic, Peter Rodgers deftly guides his reader through the complexities of text criticism. He creatively explores the theological and hermeneutical fruits of this often mind-numbing but time-tested method by means of narrative criticism. This is a priceless resource for seminarians, pastors, and priests alike, who want to understand the lay of the land of this classic method, but who often find themselves put off by the method's technical intricacies."

-Kathryn Greene-McCreight

St. John's Episcopal Church, New Haven