Virtues and Vices: New Testament Ethical Exhortation in I.
Piety/Godliness in Early Christianity and the Roman World New Testament Studies, Emerging Approaches in New Testament, Men and Masculinity in the New Testament, Feminist Scholarship on the New Testament and Early Christianity, Women, Gender, and S. Mysticism in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity Minoritized Criticism of the New Testament Medieval Biblical Interpretation (Jewish) īiblical Studies, Cognitive Science Approaches inįeminist Scholarship on the Old Testamentįunerary Rites and Practices, Greco-Roman Īrchaeology and Material Culture of Moab and the MoabitesĪrchaeology and Material Culture of Phoenicia and the Phoe.Īrchaeology and Material Culture of the Kingdom of Israel. Although primarily concerned with the manuscript tradition or the establishing of new critical editions, textual critics inevitably concern themselves also with the history of the printed editions of the New Testament in Greek.Īrchaeology and Material Culture of Nabataea and the Nabat.Īltered States of Consciousness in the BibleĪrchaeology and Material Culture of Ammon and the Ammonite.Īrchaeology and Material Culture of Aram and the ArameansĪrchaeology and Material Culture of Judah and the Judeans. Paleography, codicology, and papyrology are studies that interest many in the field. The biblical citations and allusions found in the writings of the Church Fathers also belong to New Testament textual criticism. Translations of the scriptures into Latin, Coptic, and Syriac, as well as other versions in early Christian languages such as Gothic, Georgian, and Armenian, also occupy text critics. More recently, many text critics have also been concerned to understand the significance and literary or theological importance of distinctive readings. The art of the discipline is in classifying the differing text-types into which manuscripts are said to fall, in evaluating the textual variation in manuscripts, and in establishing a critical text, usually furnished with an apparatus criticus, typically as footnotes displaying a selection of alternative readings. Here a few minor points are worth mentioning. In New Testament studies, textual critics are mainly concerned with Greek manuscripts and traditionally with trying to establish, and publish, the earliest recoverable writings of the New Testament. The final section on textual criticism introduces another complex area. As a science, it is involved in the discovery and reading of manuscripts, cataloguing their contents, and, for literary works, collating the readings in them against other copies of the text. Part two describes in detail the background of the modern versions that the HOTTP took into account in its work. Michaelis and presents the Hebrew Old Testament Text Project and its goals. It focuses on textual criticism of the ancient versions of the Old Testament, pointing out that no other ancient or modern text seems to be witnessed by so many. In the process you will gain an appreciation for the vast work that has been accomplished in preserving the text of Scripture and find a renewed confidence in its reliability.Textual criticism is concerned with documents written by hand. Part one surveys the history of OT textual criticism from its origins to J. Wegner gives you an overview of the history and methods, aims and results of textual criticism. In plain language and with ample illustration, Paul D. But if you are one of those interested in a general understanding of textual criticism, this book introduces you to textual criticism of the whole Bible-the Hebrew Old Testament and the Greek New Testament. That is why nearly every book on the subject focuses on the textual criticism of either the Old or New Testament. In fact, the task of textual criticism is so daunting and detailed that it is divided between Old Testament textual critics and New Testament textual critics. Sorting out the errors and determining the original wording is the task of textual criticism. And despite the most careful and painstaking efforts of scribes and publishers down through the centuries, errors of one sort or another have crept in and have been reproduced. The Bible has been on a long historical journey since its original composition.
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