CONTENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- ONE: INTRODUCTION AND SUMMARY OF RESULTS -- Transmission History -- History of Scholarship -- Goals and Conclusions of the Present Study -- Text and Recensional Relationship -- The Religious Affiliation of the Author -- Date of Composition -- Original Language -- Provenance -- Sitz im Leben -- Eschatology -- TWO: EVIDENCE FOR THE TEXT OF 6 EZRA -- Primary Evidence: The Manuscripts -- Description of the Significant Manuscripts -- Conclusion to the Discussion of the Manuscripts -- Secondary Evidence: Quotations and an Epitome -- Gildas's "De excidio Britanniae" (ca. 540) -- The Mozarabic Liturgy (Date Uncertain) -- The Roman Liturgy (Date Uncertain) -- The Epitome of 6 Ezra in the León Manuscript (Twelfth Century) -- THREE: RECONSTRUCTING THE TWO RECENSIONS -- The Readings of the Latin Manuscripts -- Sangermanensis (S) -- Ambianensis (A) -- Complutensis 1 (C) -- Mazarinaeus (M) -- Bruxellensis (N) -- Epternacensis (E) -- Abulensis (V) -- Legionensis 2 (L) -- The Lost Exemplar of 15:59-16:31 in Manuscript S -- The Latin Manuscript Groups and Hyparchetypes -- Text r (Common Ancestor of V and L) -- Text q (Common Ancestor of C and r) -- Text p (Common Ancestor of M, N, and E) -- Text t (Common Ancestor of S and A -- Hyparchetype of the French Family) -- Text u (Common Ancestor of p and q -- Hyparchetype of the Spanish family) -- The Relationship between the Oxyrhynchus Greek Fragment and the Latin Recensions -- Secondary Witnesses to the Text: Quotations and the Epitome in Manuscript L -- Gildas's "De excidio Britanniae" -- The Mozarabic Liturgy -- The Roman Liturgy -- The Epitome of 6 Ezra in the León Manuscript -- Conclusion -- FOUR: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE TWO RECENSIONS -- Methodological Considerations -- Analysis of the Differences between the Recensions -- Grammatical and Stylistic Features.

Synonymous Lexical Variants -- Differences in Meaning, Including Theological Factors and Apparent Corruptions -- Quantitative Differences (Additions and Deletions) -- Conclusions -- Additional Considerations -- FIVE: VOCABULARY -- The Vocabulary of the Earliest Recoverable (French) Text of 6 Ezra -- The Vocabulary of the Secondary (Spanish) Recension of 6 Ezra -- SIX: THE RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION OF THE AUTHOR -- SEVEN: DATE -- NOTES -- APPENDIXES -- 1. The Text of 6 Ezra: Parallel Alignment of the French and Spanish Recensions, with All Textual Witnesses -- 2. 6 Ezra: An Eclectic Latin Text -- 3. 6 Ezra: Translation -- 4. Textual Relationships between the Manuscripts of 4, 5, and 6 Ezra -- 5. Index of Words in Latin Witnesses to the Text of 6 Ezra -- 6. Index of Greek Words in Oxyrhynchus Fragment 1010 -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX OF PASSAGES -- INDEX OF NAMES AND TERMS -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.