The Recent History of New Testament Textual Criticism
(from WESTCOTT and HORT, 1881, to the present)
by J. Neville Birdsall, Birmingham
Contents
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| Introduction |
100 |
I. The Greek Evidence |
103 |
1. Evidence known to WESTCOTT and HORT |
103 |
2. Advances in knowledge of uncial manuscripts |
103 |
3. Papyri: discoveries and publications |
106 |
4. Advances in knowledge of minuscule manuscripts |
109 |
5. The analysis of the lectionary texts |
114 |
6. New evidence from the fathers |
115 |
7. New material from Mount Sinai |
117 |
8. Studies in the Greek language and its palaeography |
117 |
II. The Evidence of the ancient versions |
118 |
1. Latin |
118 |
2. Syriac |
123 |
a) The Old Syriac |
123 |
b) Translations based on the Old Syriac |
124 |
c) The 'Diatessaron' |
127 |
d) The Peshitta Syriac |
130 |
e) The later Syriac versions |
131 |
f) The 'Palestinian Syriac' |
131 |
3. Coptic versions |
132 |
4. The Ethiopic version |
135 |
5. The Church Slavonic version |
136 |
6. The Gothic version |
136 |
7. Other versions |
137 |
8. Summary |
137 |
III. Development of theory |
138 |
1. The problem and the parameters of its discussion |
138 |
2. The theory of WESTCOTT and HORT |
138 |
3. HORT'S successors and the concept of corruption |
141 |
4. VON SODEN'S theory (structure and faults) |
144 |
5. Stemmata and the notion of 'local texts' |
145 |
6. The breakdown of the theory of 'local texts' |
149 |
7. Statistical and taxonomic models of analysis |
153 |
8. Eclecticism, its antecedents and modifications |
156 |
9. The peculiar problems of the Acts of the Apostles |
158 |
10. The text of the Apocalypse of John |
163 |
11. Conservative Protestant reaction |
164 |
12. COLWELL - a practical scholar theorizing |
166 |
13. ZUNTZ - classical philology and New Testament text |
169 |
14. ALAND - entrepreneurial pragmatism |
171 |
15. Consensus at the end of the twentieth century |
176 |
IV. Critical editions |
177 |
| Conclusions |
186 |
| Bibliography |
189 |
1. References to standard works |
190 |
2. Facsimile editions |
190 |
3. Text editions |
191 |
4. Collations |
191 |
5. Studies on Greek and general topics |
191 |
6. Versions (all references) |
193 |
a) Latin |
193 |
b) Syriac |
194 |
c) Diatessaron |
194 |
d) Armenian |
194 |
e) Georgian |
194 |
f) Coptic |
195 |
g) Ethiopic |
195 |
h) Gothic |
195 |
i) Church Slavonic |
195 |
7. Patristica |
195 |
8. Palaeography and papyrology |
195 |
9. Catalogues |
196 |
10. Handbooks |
196 |
11. Editions of the New Testament in Greek |
196 |
12. Critical comments |
197 |
13. English Literature |
197 |
14. Addenda |
197 |