The authors of the nine essays in this collection deal with individual or certain sets of manuscripts in order to demonstrate that approach and method are both crucial and pivotal aspects for a sound investigations. Thus, the essays serve as a variety of approaches destined by their topics, but all of them concerned about acknowledged methods.

Thomas J. Kraus, Ph.D. (2000) in New Testament Study, University of Regensburg, is a private scholar, teaching at a German grammar school and involved in several research projects. He has published, in addition to several studies in research journals, Ad Fontes: Original Manuscripts and Their Significance for Stuying Early Christianity: Selected Essays (Brill, 2007) and Gospel Fragments together with Michael J. Kruger and Tobias Nicklas (OECGT, Oxford, 2009).
Tobias Nicklas, Ph.D. (2000), Habilitation (2004), is Chair of New Testament at the Faculty of
Theology, University of Regensburg, Germany. He has published widely on New
Testament and Christian apocryphal texts, New Testament hermeneutics and
textual history.