This book has been out for a couple of months now, but we would like to highlight this collection of essays, edited by Stanley E. Porter, Chris S. Stevens, and David I. Yoon, Studies on the Paratextual Features of Early New Testament Manuscripts (TENT 16; Leiden: Brill, 2023). The editors write, in the preface:

This project was conceived as an effort to draw attention to a variety of textual phenomena often underappreciated by New Testament scholars. Common practices of New Testament textual criticism often reduce ancient manuscripts to mere repositories of textual variants. These textual variants are isolated, often as individual words or at best small groups of words, and then debated at individual points within the text of the New Testament. Single-minded approaches to manuscripts overlook the wealth of information the manuscripts contain about their textual history and church history.

The blurb of the book is as follows:

Most studies of ancient New Testament manuscripts focus on individual readings and textual variants. This book, however, draws attention to, and attempts to advance, study of the textual and paratextual features of New Testament manuscripts. After defining paratext, the contributors discuss key manuscript characteristics, including headings, introductions, marginal comments, colophons, layout features such as margins, columns, spacing, and reading aids such as segmentation, paragraphos, ekthesis, coronis, and rubrication. The goal of this book is to explore how textual criticism goes beyond individual readings and includes studying the history of texts and their perceivable features.

This volume contains essays by first-class scholars in the fields of New Testament papyrology and textual criticism, as can be seen in the table of contents below:

Introduction: Paratextual Features of Early Greek Manuscripts
 Stanley E. Porter, Chris S. Stevens, and David I. Yoon

1 What Is Paratext? In Search of an Elusive Category
 Stanley E. Porter

2 Missing the Point: Modern Punctuation Practice as Authoritative but Possibly Problematic Decision-Making
 Hans Förster

3 Pointers to Persons and Pericopes? A Study of the Intermarginal Signs in Sahidic Manuscripts of the Gospel of John
 Matthias H. O. Schulz

4 But for Me, the Scriptures are Jesus Christ (Ι̅Ϲ̅ Χ̅Ϲ̅; Ign. Phld. 8:2). Creedal Text-Coding and the Early Scribal System of Nomina Sacra
 Tomas Bokedal

5 Segmentation and Interpretation of Early Pauline Manuscripts
 S. Matthew Solomon

6 Can Papyri Correspondence Help Us to Understand Paul’s “Large Letters” in Galatians?
 William Varner

7 The Tradition and Development of the Subscriptions to 1 Timothy
 Tommy Wasserman and Linnea Thorp

8 Second Timothy: When and Where? Text and Traditions in the Subscriptions
 Conrad Thorup Elmelund and Tommy Wasserman

9 Composite Citations in New Testament Greek Manuscripts
 Sean A. Adams and Seth M. Ehorn

10 Titus in P32 and Early Majuscules: Textual Reliability and Scribal Design
 Chris S. Stevens

11 The Scribal Use of Ekthesis as a Paragraph Marker? The Galatians Text in Codex Sinaiticus as a Test Case
 David I. Yoon

12 Miniature Codices in Early Christianity
 Michael J. Kruger

13 Marginalia in New Testament Greek Papyri: Implications for Scribal Practice and Textual Transmission
 Michael P. Theophilos

Conclusion: Paratextual Features: Summary and Prospects
 Stanley E. Porter, Chris S. Stevens, and David I. Yoon

We hope that this volume makes a positive contribution to the study of New Testament manuscripts, not just regarding individual readings but textual and paratextual features of individual manuscripts.

— David I. Yoon