Papyrus Bodmer II (P66): Its Textual Relationships and Scribal Characteristics

Gordon Fee's first book, published in 1968 by the University of Utah Press as volume 34 of the series Studies and Documents. It is the published form of his doctoral work at the University of Southern California, completed in 1966 under Eldon Jay Epp, whose dissertation had covered both Papyrus Bodmer II and Papyrus Bodmer XIV-XV; the book concentrates on Papyrus Bodmer II, the early Greek papyrus codex of the Gospel of John known as P66. Fee examines the textual relationships of P66 to the other manuscripts of John and the scribe's characteristics, giving particular attention to the scribe's many corrections. The study established him as a textual critic, the field in which he published for the first part of his career. It was reprinted in 2021 as the first part of Bodmer Papyri, Scribal Culture, and Textual Transmission, a collection of his textual work edited by Epp.