An Introduction to the New Testament Manuscripts and Their Texts
By: D. C. Parker
Paperback | 24 July 2008
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This book is a major English-language introduction to the earliest manuscripts of the New Testament. An essential handbook for scholars and students, it provides a thorough grounding in the study and editing of the New Testament text combined with an emphasis on the dramatic current developments in the field. Covering ancient sources in Greek, Syriac, Latin and Coptic, it: * Describes the manuscripts and other ancient textual evidence, and the tools needed to study them * Deals with textual criticism and textual editing, describing modern approaches and techniques, with guidance on the use of editions * Introduces the witnesses and textual study of each of the main sections of the New Testament, discussing typical variants and their significance. A companion website with full-colour images provides generous amounts of illustrative material, bringing the subject alive for the reader.
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'... anyone interested in the subject should drop whatever else they are doing and go and buy it ... Brilliant, lucid, learned, nuanced, and able to look at things from lots of different angles. Also provocative, stimulating, informative and interesting.' Peter M. Head, Lecturer in New Testament, Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge and Tyndale House
List of plates | p. xi |
Links to URLs | p. xv |
Acknowledgements | p. xvi |
List of abbreviations | p. xvii |
Introduction | p. 1 |
The Documents | p. 11 |
The study of the manuscripts | p. 13 |
The Christian book | p. 13 |
The codex | p. 13 |
The development of the Christian book | p. 20 |
An introduction to palaeography | p. 30 |
Greek manuscripts | p. 35 |
Classifying Greek New Testament manuscripts | p. 35 |
The Liste | p. 38 |
Richard | p. 46 |
The Bibliography | p. 47 |
The Leuven Database of Ancient Books | p. 47 |
Reproductions | p. 47 |
Catalogues | p. 49 |
Text und Textwert | p. 50 |
Which edition uses which manuscripts | p. 51 |
Resources referring to particular categories of manuscript | p. 52 |
Latin manuscripts | p. 57 |
Introductory | p. 57 |
Tools for the study of Latin manuscripts | p. 58 |
A brief guide to Latin palaeography | p. 60 |
Tools for the study of Old Latin manuscripts | p. 61 |
Tools for the study of Vulgate manuscripts | p. 62 |
Syriac manuscripts | p. 64 |
Coptic manuscripts | p. 66 |
Manuscripts in more than one language | p. 68 |
Manuscripts containing the entire New Testament | p. 70 |
Ancient Greek manuscripts | p. 71 |
Ancient Latin manuscripts | p. 75 |
Ninth-century Latin Bibles | p. 76 |
Byzantine Greek New Testaments | p. 77 |
Syriac manuscripts | p. 78 |
Coptic manuscripts | p. 79 |
The medieval west | p. 79 |
The Renaissance and the printing press | p. 80 |
Conclusion | p. 80 |
Using the materials: a test case | p. 81 |
Practical skills in the study of manuscripts | p. 88 |
Introduction | p. 88 |
Visiting a library | p. 89 |
How to describe a manuscript of the Greek New Testament | p. 90 |
How to make a paper collation of a manuscript | p. 95 |
How to make an electronic transcription of a manuscript | p. 100 |
How to make a paper transcription of a manuscript | p. 106 |
Other types of witness | p. 108 |
Introduction | p. 108 |
Patristic citations | p. 108 |
Editions of patristic writings | p. 108 |
Evaluating citations | p. 110 |
Tools for the study of patristic writings | p. 113 |
Three special cases | p. 117 |
The study of the versions | p. 118 |
Introduction | p. 118 |
The Latin versions | p. 120 |
The Syriac versions | p. 121 |
The Coptic versions | p. 122 |
The Armenian version | p. 123 |
The Georgian version | p. 123 |
The Ethiopic version | p. 124 |
The Arabic versions | p. 124 |
The Slavonic version | p. 124 |
The Gothic version | p. 125 |
Other versions | p. 125 |
New Testament texts in other documents and media | p. 126 |
Greek manuscripts excluded from the Liste | p. 126 |
Inscriptions | p. 128 |
Textual Criticism and Editions | p. 131 |
Manuscripts as tradents of the text | p. 133 |
Introductory | p. 133 |
Two copying events | p. 135 |
Codex Mediolanensis and its copy | p. 135 |
The supplementary Latin leaves in Codex Bezae | p. 136 |
A family of manuscripts | p. 137 |
Corrections in manuscripts | p. 141 |
Is there less variation in texts with fewer manuscripts? | p. 149 |
Did scribes revise the text they were copying? | p. 151 |
Did scribes write to dictation? | p. 154 |
Conclusion | p. 157 |
Textual criticism | p. 159 |
Two hundred years of textual criticism | p. 159 |
Introduction to the topic | p. 159 |
Lachmannian stemmatics | p. 161 |
Methods of quantititative analysis | p. 163 |
Coincidental agreement between witnesses | p. 166 |
Evolution, genetics and stemmatics | p. 167 |
The Coherence-Based Genealogical Method | p. 169 |
What is a text-type? | p. 171 |
Majority Text theory | p. 175 |
Textual criticisms? | p. 176 |
The history of the text and editing the text | p. 179 |
The concept of textual history | p. 179 |
Editing the text | p. 180 |
The role of textual criticism | p. 181 |
Textual criticism and history | p. 182 |
Textual criticism and exegesis | p. 183 |
Textual criticism and theology | p. 185 |
Textual criticism and the world | p. 189 |
Editions and how to use them | p. 191 |
The history of editions | p. 191 |
Why we have critical editions | p. 191 |
The transition from manuscript to printed book | p. 193 |
Editions which present the text of one or more witnesses in full | p. 194 |
Editions which present the text of more than one witness in a compressed form | p. 196 |
Editions of the Received Text, the Majority Text and the Byzantine Text | p. 198 |
Editions which move from print towards the electronic edition | p. 200 |
Conclusion | p. 202 |
The purposes of editions | p. 203 |
The printed scholarly edition, major, minor and in hand | p. 204 |
The printed reading edition | p. 206 |
The principal print editions and how to use them | p. 207 |
Tischendorf's eighth edition | p. 207 |
Von Soden's editio maior | p. 210 |
The International Greek New Testament Project's edition of Luke | p. 210 |
The Nestle-Aland 27th edition | p. 212 |
The Vetus Latina | p. 213 |
The Editio critica maior | p. 214 |
Synopses | p. 214 |
Some other hand editions | p. 215 |
Critical electronic editions | p. 216 |
Their purpose and definition | p. 216 |
Case studies | p. 217 |
Advantages and disadvantages of the electronic edition | p. 221 |
Conclusion | p. 223 |
The Sections of the New Testament | p. 225 |
The Book of Revelation | p. 227 |
Introduction | p. 227 |
The history of research | p. 227 |
The manuscripts | p. 232 |
The versions | p. 236 |
The Latin versions | p. 236 |
The Syriac versions | p. 237 |
The Coptic versions | p. 238 |
The commentaries | p. 238 |
The text forms | p. 240 |
Textual criticism | p. 241 |
General considerations | p. 241 |
The number of the beast | p. 242 |
Other readings | p. 244 |
Paul | p. 246 |
Introduction | p. 246 |
The writing of the letters | p. 247 |
The growth of the Pauline corpus | p. 249 |
The manuscripts | p. 256 |
The versions | p. 264 |
The Syriac versions | p. 264 |
The Latin versions | p. 265 |
The Coptic versions | p. 266 |
Commentators | p. 267 |
The Euthaliana | p. 268 |
Variant readings with a bearing upon the formation of the collection | p. 270 |
The endings of Romans | p. 270 |
The problem of Ephesians | p. 274 |
Other variant readings | p. 275 |
1 Corinthians 14.34-5 | p. 275 |
Hebrews 2.9 | p. 277 |
Editing the Pauline letters | p. 279 |
Acts and the Catholic epistles | p. 283 |
Introduction: Acts and the Catholic epistles as a unit in the tradition | p. 283 |
The Acts of the Apostles | p. 286 |
The genre of Acts and textual variation | p. 286 |
The Greek witnesses | p. 287 |
The versions | p. 290 |
Interpreting the textual phenomena | p. 293 |
The Catholic epistles | p. 301 |
Introduction | p. 301 |
The Greek manuscripts | p. 301 |
The versions | p. 302 |
Commentaries | p. 305 |
The history of the text | p. 305 |
Conjectural emendation | p. 308 |
The Epistle of Jude | p. 309 |
The Gospels | p. 311 |
Introduction | p. 311 |
The fourfold Gospel | p. 312 |
Ancillary material | p. 315 |
The Eusebian Apparatus | p. 315 |
The Vatican paragraphs and other divisions | p. 316 |
The Greek manuscripts | p. 316 |
Matthew | p. 317 |
Mark | p. 319 |
Luke | p. 320 |
John | p. 323 |
The versions | p. 325 |
The Syriac versions | p. 325 |
The Latin versions | p. 327 |
The Coptic versions | p. 328 |
Recent editions of other versions | p. 329 |
Commentaries | p. 329 |
Tatian's Diatessaron | p. 331 |
Marcion's Gospel | p. 334 |
Editions | p. 335 |
Textual variation | p. 336 |
Studying textual variation in the Gospels | p. 336 |
Harmonisation | p. 338 |
The endings of Mark | p. 341 |
John 7.53-8.11 | p. 342 |
Marcan style and thoroughgoing eclecticism | p. 343 |
Conclusion | p. 346 |
Final thoughts | p. 348 |
Glossary | p. 350 |
Index of manuscripts | p. 355 |
Index of biblical citations | p. 359 |
Index of names and subjects | p. 361 |
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ISBN: 9780521719896
ISBN-10: 0521719895
Published: 24th July 2008
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 400
Audience: College, Tertiary and University
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: GB
Dimensions (cm): 22.86 x 15.24 x 2.08
Weight (kg): 0.64
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