Foreword -- Abbreviations -- Chapter I: Introduction and summary -- 1. Project summary -- a. Central argument -- b. Project limitations -- c. Genealogy and chance -- 2. Summary of contents -- a. Text and translation, chapters 2-3 -- b. Manuscripts and traditions, chapters 4-5 -- c. Interrelation of the Coptic versions, chapter 6 -- d. Conclusions and considerations, chapter 7 -- 3. Method -- a. Statistics -- b. Terminology and citation -- c. Minimalism -- Chapter II: Translation technique -- 1. Recent scholarship in literalism and translation technique -- a. Linguistics -- b. Septuagint studies -- 2. The Sahidic and Classical Bohairic compared with the NA27 -- a. Data collection -- b. Normal deviation in the Greek tradition -- c. Deviation between the NA27 and the Sahidic and Classical Bohairic New Testament -- d. Summary of results: Coptic and Greek equivalency in John's gospel -- 3. καί, εἴτε, τε :: ⲁⲩⲱ, ⲙⲛ-, ϩⲓ -- a. The καί word group -- b. Past tense, conjunctive, and circumstantial-relative asyndeton -- c. Coordinate conjunctions -- d. Intensive and emphatic καί -- e. Disjunctive asyndeton -- f. Paraphrase/transmission -- g. Other -- h. Coptic καί equivalents with no counterpart in the NA27 -- 4. Other Coptic particles -- a. δέ :: ⲇⲉ -- b. οὐδέ, οὔτε, μηδέ, μήτε :: ⲟⲩⲇⲉ, ⲟⲩⲧⲉ, (ⲙⲏⲇⲉ), ⲙⲏⲧⲉ -- c. μέν :: ⲙⲉⲛ -- d. οὖν :: ⳝⲉ/ⲟⲩⲛ -- e. γάρ :: ⲅⲁⲣ -- f. πάλιν :: ⲟⲛ, ⲡⲁⲗⲓⲛ ⲟⲛ, ⲡⲁⲗⲓⲛ -- g. ἀλλά :: ⲁⲗⲗⲁ -- 5. Further instances of translational variation -- a. Names -- b. Demonstrative pronouns -- c. Phonetic assimilation -- d. Infixes and number -- e. Stock phrases -- f. Ellipsis -- g. Distribution change -- h. Assimilation and memorization -- i. Amelioration -- 6. Conclusions on translation technique -- a. Consistency and style in the Coptic versions.

b. Coincidental agreement between Coptic and expansionistic Greek witnesses -- c. Guidelines for Greek textual criticism -- Chapter III: Translation languages and citation method -- 1. The linguistic unity of the Coptic dialects -- a. Result clauses -- b. Vocabulary -- c. Temporalization -- d. Focalization -- e. Summary of dialectal difference -- 2. Greek-Coptic linguistic equivalence -- a. Articles -- b. Voice -- c. Tense and aspect -- d. Infinitive forms (Coptic conjunctive) -- e. Indicative and non-indicative moods -- f. Participles -- g. Determination -- h. Possession -- i. Clauses -- j. Word order -- k. Varia -- 3. Further Greek-Coptic linguistic equivalence issues -- a. Definite articles -- b. Lexical non-equivalence (expansion and compression) -- c. Greek-Coptic loanwords -- 4. Greek-Coptic linguistic equivalence and citation method -- 5. Conclusions -- a. General caveats -- b. Categorizing variants -- 6. An examination of the Coptic (co) citations -- a. Preliminary remarks -- b. Category one: manual edition citations -- c. Category two: specialist edition citations -- d. Category three: unreliable citations -- e. Summary of the Coptic citations (co) -- Chapter IV: The Sahidic translation of John's gospel -- 1. Introduction to the Sahidic tradition -- a. Manuscript tradition -- b. Sahidic: dialect, register or sociolect? -- 2. The primary witnesses to John's gospel in Sahidic -- a. sa1 Mark, -- b. sa4 -- c. sa9 -- d. sa10 -- e. sa19 -- f. ly -- 3. The evolution of the Sahidic text -- a. The Schüssler Sahidic evolution hypothesis -- b. Sahidic variants contradicting the Schüssler hypothesis -- c. Sahidic variants supporting Schüssler's contention -- d. Examples of unclear sa1 variants -- e. Assessing variation in the Sahidic tradition -- f. sa10 -- g. Agreements between sa1 and sa10.

h. Disagreements between sa1 and sa10 -- 4. Conclusions on the evolution of the Sahidic textual tradition -- a. Manuscript age does not equal textual priority -- b. sa1,4,5,9,10 and the Lycopolitan do not represent stages in a linear progression -- c. False affinity due to lack of witnesses -- d. sa10 -- e. The Lycopolitan text -- 5. Concluding remarks -- a. Limitations of this study -- 6. Previous research on the Sahidic textual tradition -- a. Paul Kahle -- b. Rodolphe Kasser -- c. Gonzalo Aranda Pérez -- d. Anne Boud'hors -- e. Frank Feder -- f. Elina Perttilä -- 7. An examination of the Sahidic (sa) citations -- a. Preliminary remarks -- b. Category one: manual edition citations -- c. Category two: specialist edition citations -- d. Category three: unreliable citations -- e. Summary of the Sahidic citations -- Chapter V: Non-Sahidic witnesses to John's gospel -- 1. Lycopolitan John (2:12-3:21 -- 4:6-7:10 -- 7:28-20:20) -- 2. Achmimic John (Ⲣ6) -- 3. Middle Egyptian Fayumic John (PMich 3521) -- a. Dialect -- b. Transcription -- 4. Middle Egyptian John (UC71048) -- a. Provenance -- b. Transcription -- c. Script -- d. Dialect -- e. Conclusions on Petrie Middle Egyptian fragment -- 5. Fayumic John -- a. Diversity in the Fayumic tradition -- b. fa 15 (Berlin P. 5569) -- c. fa 16 (Berlin P. 5542) -- d. fa 6 (CM 3890, BL Or. 5707 and CM 3827) -- e. fa 17 (IFAO inv. 218) -- f. fa 18(K 54) -- g. fa 19(K 10112) -- h. fa 7 -- i. fa 20 (K 3) -- j. fa 21 (K 3275, 2583, 3274 [2862, 2865]) -- 6. Early Bohairic John (P.Bodm. 3) -- a. Early Bohairic manuscripts -- b. Non-biblical Early Bohairic -- c. Peculiarities of P.Bodm. 3 -- 7. Classical Bohairic John -- a. Greek-Bohairic language contact -- b. Classical Bohairic manuscript tradition.

c. Reflections on the Classical Bohairic and textual criticism -- 8. Conclusions on non-Sahidic manuscripts of Coptic John -- a. The Minor dialects and textual criticism -- b. The Bohairic tradition and textual criticism -- c. Overview of the manuscripts -- ChapterVI: Interversional history -- 1. Prior scholarship on Coptic interversional relationships -- a. The Lycopolitan and Achmimic texts (Thompson, Bellet, Böhlig and Till) -- b. The Fayumic New Testament (Kahle) -- c. The Coptic versions of John (Kasser) -- d. John 10:1-18 in six Coptic dialects (Mink) -- e. Middle Egyptian Pauline epistles (Orlandi) -- f. Fayumic Mark (Aranda Perez) -- g. Achmimic Exodus (Nagel) -- h. Achmimic and Fayumic New Testament (Funk) -- i. Fayumic Ecclesiastes, 1 John and 1 Peter (Kasser/Schenke) -- j. Middle Egyptian Matthew and Acts (Schenke) -- k. Lamentations in Sahidic, Bohairic and Fayumic (Feder) -- 1. Conclusions on interversional research -- 2. Method in analyzing interversional agreement -- a. The textual instability of particles and infixes -- b. Word order -- c. Word choice -- d. Coincidental agreement -- e. Paraphrases and transformations -- f. Conclusions concerning interdialectal similarities -- 3. John's gospel in Lycopolitan and Sahidic -- a. Shared Lycopolitan-Sahidic translational features -- b. Lycopolitan and Sahidic have prominent differences -- c. Conclusions on the Lycopolitan-Sahidic relationship -- 4. John's gospel in Early and Classical Bohairic -- a. Translational changes -- b. Early-Classical Bohairic agreements -- c. Early Bohairic shares qualities with both Sahidic and Classical Bohairic -- d. Early Bohairic has Sahidic readings -- e. Early and Classical Bohairic differ -- f. The Early Bohairic and the Sahidic versions -- g. The Early and Classical Bohairic versions.

5. John's gospel in Middle Egyptian Fayumic -- a. Middle Egyptian Fayumic agrees with the Sahidic -- b. Middle Egyptian Fayumic is independent -- c. Middle Egyptian Fayumic agrees with Bohairic -- d. Conclusions -- 6. John's gospel in Fayumic -- a. Stability of the Fayumic tradition -- b. BL Or. 5707 and Κ 10112 -- c. Agreements between BL Or. 5707 and Borgia Copt 109 csc.2 fsc. 2 -- d. Fayumic-Sahidic agreements (BL Or. 5707) -- e. Fayumic-Bohairic agreements -- f. Fayumic independence -- g. Summary of Fayumic relationships -- 7. John's gospel in Achmimic -- a. Achmimic agrees with Sahidic -- b. Achmimic is independent -- c. Achmimic agrees with Bohairic -- d. Conclusions -- 8. John's gospel in Middle Egyptian -- 9. Summary of the Coptic versional family in John's gospel -- a. Method and objectivity -- b. Summary of Coptic John relationships -- Chapter VII: Coptic citation and textual criticism -- 1. Project Summary -- 2. Relevance to early Coptic literature -- 3. Future research -- Plates -- Bibliography -- Index of biblical references (NT, John) -- Index of names.