New Testament Textual Criticism: A Concise GuideA beginners introduction to textual criticism that can also be used by advanced students for review purposes, 'New Testament Textual Criticism' presents the fundamentals in a concise manner.This book includes chapter summary and discussion questions, as well as appendixes that offer examples of types of errors in New Testament manuscripts, the most important witnesses to various books of the New Testament, and a worksheet students can use for conducting textual analysis. |
Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments | 7 |
From Corruption to Restoration | 27 |
From Theory to Practice | 43 |
Types of Errors in the | 59 |
A Worksheet for | 67 |
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Common terms and phrases
Alexandrian witnesses American Standard Bible ancient versions author’s style autographs Bohairic Byzantine text type chapter Christology church fathers Codex copies Coptic criteria doctrinal echomen edited Egypt Erasmus example external evidence fourth century Greek manuscripts Greek New Testa Greek New Testament Greek text group of manuscripts heaven internal Jesus John King James Version lectionaries longer reading Lord’s Prayer Luke manu Mark Matt ment Metzger’s minuscules Novum Testamentum Graece Old Latin Vulgate omitted original text papyrus parchment passages patristic citations Pauline Epistles Prefer the reading principles Radical Eclecticism reading supported reading that best Reasoned Conservatism Reasoned Eclecticism Sahidic scholars scribes scripts shorter reading style and vocabulary Syriac Peshitta Chrysostom tament Testament Greek Testament manuscripts Testament text Testament textual criticism text-critical task textual problem textual variation Textus Receptus tion translations twç ouranwç uncials United Bible Societies University of Basel variant readings verse Westcott and Hort Western text writing material