The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism

THE TEXT of the NEW TESTAMENT. An Introduction to the Critical Editions
and to the Theory and Practice of
Modern Textual Criticism......Page 4
From the Preface to the First Edition......Page 6
Preface to the Second Edition......Page 7
Translator's Preface......Page 8
Translator's Preface to the Second Edition......Page 9
CONTENTS......Page 10
PLATES......Page 16
TABLES & CHARTS......Page 18
ABBREVIATIONS......Page 19
THE TEXT OF THE NEW TESTAMENT......Page 20
1. FROM ERASMUS TO GRIESBACH......Page 22
2. FROM LACHMANN TO NESTLE......Page 30
3. FROM THE "OLD NESTLE" TO THE "NEWNESTLE"......Page 39
4. A COMPARISON OF THE MAJOR EDITIONS......Page 55
1. THE COLLECTION OF THE NEW TESTAMENT BOOKS......Page 71
2. THE CANON, CHURCH HISTORY, AND THE HISTORY OF THE TEXT......Page 72
3. THE ORIGIN OF TEXT TYPES......Page 73
4. LATIN, SYRIAC, AND COPTIC VERSIONS: THE DEMAND FOR GREEK MANUSCRIPTS LIMITED AFTER A.D. 200......Page 75
5. CENTERS OF GREEK MANUSCRIPT PRODUCTION......Page 76
6. DID THE WEST DEVELOP ITS OWN TEXT TYPE?......Page 77
7. THE SPREAD OF NEW TESTAMENT MANUSCRIPTS AND THEIR TEXT TYPES......Page 78
8. THE TEXT OF THE EARLY PERIOD......Page 79
9. THE AGE OF CONSTANTINE......Page 87
10. SUMMARY......Page 90
1. THE NUMBER OF MANUSCRIPTS AND THEIR SYMBOLS BEFORE GREGORY......Page 95
2. GREGORYS SYSTEM AND THE INCREASINGNUMBER OF MANUSCRIPTS......Page 96
3. WRITING MATERIALS......Page 98
5. DISTRIBUTION BY CONTENT......Page 101
6. THE MAJOR COLLECTIONS......Page 102
7. THE PAPYRI......Page 106
Descriptive List of Papyri......Page 119
8. THE UNCIALS......Page 126
Descriptive List of Uncials......Page 130
9. THE MINUSCULES......Page 151
Descriptive List of Minuscules......Page 152
10. A REVIEW OF TEXT MANUSCRIPTS BY CATEGORY......Page 182
11. THE LECTIONARIES......Page 186
List of Recently Discovered Lectionaries......Page 193
12. PATRISTIC CITATIONS......Page 194
Descriptive List of Greek Church Fathers......Page 196
1. INTRODUCTION......Page 208
2. THE LATIN VERSIONS......Page 209
3. THE SYRIAC VERSIONS......Page 215
b. The Old Syriac......Page 216
c. The Peshitta......Page 217
e. The Harklensis......Page 220
f. The Palestinian Syriac Version......Page 222
4. THE COPTIC VERSIONS......Page 223
5. THE ARMENIAN, GEORGIAN, AND ETHIOPIC VERSIONS......Page 227
b. The Georgian version......Page 228
c. The Ethiopic version......Page 232
a. The Gothic version......Page 233
b. The Old Church Slavonic version......Page 235
7. PATRISTIC CITATIONS......Page 237
Latin Church Fathers......Page 238
Eastern Church Fathers......Page 243
1. "MODERN EDITIONS"......Page 245
2. THE GREEK NEW TESTAMENT (GNT)......Page 247
3. NOVUM TESTAMENTUM GRAECE (NESTLE-ALAND)......Page 255
4. THE SYNOPSES......Page 283
1. CONCORDANCES......Page 291
2. DICTIONARIES......Page 294
5. SPECIAL LITERATURE......Page 297
6. COMMENTARIES......Page 300
1. TWELVE BASIC RULES FOR TEXTUAL CRITICISM......Page 303
2. SELECTED PASSAGES: CAUSES OF VARIANTS AND THEIR EVALUATION......Page 305
3. VERSES RELEGATED TO THE APPARATUS OF NESTLE-ALAND AND GNT......Page 320
4. SMALLER OMISSIONS IN THE NEW TEXT......Page 328
5. THE PARABLE OF THE TWO SONS......Page 335
1. THE TEXT AND TEXTUAL VALUE OF NEW TESTAMENT MANUSCRIPTS......Page 340
2. CATEGORIES AND TEXT TYPES......Page 355
INDEX OF BIBLICAL CITATIONS......Page 361
Papyri......Page 368
Uncials......Page 369
Minuscules......Page 372
Lectionaries......Page 374
Early Versions......Page 375
INDEX OF NAMES AND SUBJECTS......Page 376
CHART 5: The Textual Contents of New Testament Papyri......Page 391
CHART 6: The Textual Contents of New Testament Uncial Manuscripts......Page 394