Book Notices

alternate position. One gets the impression from the Alands' book that they dismiss the work of other scholars with whom they do not agree with some- thing approaching a sneer. Almost from, the outset the authors' strong antipathy against the Textus Re- ceptus (which is based on the much-maligned Byzantine Text) comes through. Writing about Codex Bezae, the authors say that if this text "had prevailed in the early period it would have proved far more difficult than the Textus Receptus...