The Editio Critica Maior provides the full range of resources necessary for scholarly research in establishing the text and reconstructing the history of the New Testament text during its first thousand years.

Resources include:

• all the variants found in the selected Greek manuscripts and in citations by the Greek Fathers, and
• the evidence of the most important early versions (Latin, Coptic, Syriac, Christian-Palestinian Aramaic, Ethiopic, and Gothic) where they witness to variants in the Greek text.

The text of the present edition has been established afresh on the basis of these resources.

The Editio Critica Maior of the Gospel of Mark is available in three volumes:

• The first volume (Volume I.2/1), Text, contains the Greek text of Mark along with a clearly structured, extensive text-critical apparatus.
• The second volume (Volume I.2/2), Supplementary Material, lists all relevant New Testament manuscripts with descriptions of their textual character in light of the total body of evidence. The manuscripts and manuscript groups are arranged by their role in the development of the text, providing readers with a broader perspective on text-critical issues and promoting greater clarity about how decisions on variant readings are made.
• The third volume (Volume I.2/3), Studies, contains a section called "Text-Critical Commentary" that discusses those passages where difficulties are found in the textual tradition. Additional studies in this volume address various aspects of the manuscript and linguistic traditions associated with the Gospel of Mark.

The volume is edited by Holger Strutwolf, Georg Gäbel, Annette Hüffmeier, Marie-Luise Lakmann, Gregory S. Paulson, and Klaus Wachtel.