Endnote 7 – The Staurogram

For fuller discussion and citation of scholarly publications, see L.W. Hurtado, The Earliest Christian Artifacts: Manuscripts and Christian Origins (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2006), pp. 135–154; Larry W. Hurtado, “The Staurogram in Early Christian Manuscripts: The Earliest Visual Reference to the Crucified Jesus?” in T.J. Kraus and T. Nicklas, eds., New Testament Manuscripts: Their Texts and Their World (Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2006), pp. 207–226. The most important previous studies were by K. Aland, “Bemerkungen zum Alter und Entstehung des Christogramms anhand von Beobachtungen bei P⁶⁶ und P⁷⁵,” in Studien zur Überlieferung des Neuen Testaments und seines Textes (Berlin: De Gruyter, 1967), pp. 173–179; and Matthew Black, “The Chi-Rho Sign: Christogram and/or Staurogram?” in W.W. Gasque and R.P. Martin, eds., Apostolic History and the Gospel: Essays Presented to F.F. Bruce (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1970), pp. 319–327.