This volume collects together for the first time the most influential papers of the late leading New Testament textual critic J. Neville Birdsall. They include important studies of the Greek witnesses to the New Testament text, the Georgian version of the New Testament, and the theory of textual criticism. Other subjects include palaeography, patristic literature, and the early versions of the New Testament. One of the papers is published here for the first time. As well as making accessible these significant products of a lifetime of scholarship, the collection fully demonstrates the author’s standing as one of the most learned and wide-ranging New Testament textual scholars of modern times.