The Text of the New Testament Its Transmission, Corruption, and Restoration
- Oxford Oxford University Press 1992
- 310p
includes index and biblioraphy
THE MATERIALS FOR THE TEXTUAL CRITICISM OF THE NEW TESTAMENT The Making of Ancient Books THE MATERIALS OF ANCIENT BOOKS 3 THE FORMS OF ANCIENT BOOKS 5 ANCIENT SCRIBES AND THEIR HANDIWORK 8 (with an added note on colophons) 19 `helps for readers` in new testament manuż scripts 21 STATISTICS OF GREEK MANUSCRIPTS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT 3! Important Witnesses to the Text of the New Testaż ment 36 GREEK MANUSCRIPTS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT 36 ANCIENT VERSIONS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT 67 PATRISTIC QUOTATIONS FROM THE NEW TESTAMENT 86 Noiivanawa ivanxoafNoo -iia The Causes of Error in the Transmission of the Text of the New Testament 186 UNINTENTIONAL CHANGES 186 INTENTIONAL CHANGES 195 The Practice of New Testament Textual Criticism 207 BASIC CRITERIA FOR THE EVALUATION OF VARIANT READINGS 2O7 THE PROCESS OF EVALUATING VARIANT READINGS 211 THE TEXTUAL ANALYSIS OF SELECTED PASSAGES 2IQ THE HISTORY OF NEW TESTAMENT TEXTUAL CRITICISM AS REFLECTED IN PRINTED EDITIONS OF THE GREEK TESTAMENT The Pre-critical Period: The Origin and Dominance of the Textus Receptus 95 FROM XIMENES AND ERASMUS TO THE ELZEVIRS 95 THE COLLECTION OF VARIANT READINGS IO6 The Modern Critical Period: From Griesbach to the Present 1 19 THE BEGINNINGS OF SCIENTIFIC TEXTUAL CRITICISM OF THE NEW TESTAMENT THE OVERTHROW OF THE TEXTUS RECEPTUS THE APPLICATION OF TEXTUAL CRITICISM TO THE TEXT OF THE NEW TESTAMENT The Origins of Textual Criticism as a Scholarly Discipline 149 Modern Methods of Textual Criticism 156 THE CLASSICAL METHOD OP TEXTUAL CRITICISM 156 REACTIONS AGAINSTCLASSICALTEXTUAL CRITICISM 159 STATISTICAL METHODS OF TEXTUAL CRITICISM 163 LOCAL TEXTS AND ANCIENT EDITIONS 169 ECLECTICISM, OR `RATIONAL CRITICISM1 175 METHODS OF DETERMINING FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS AMONG MANUSCRIPTS 179 CONJECTURAL EMENDATION 182