Studies in the textual criticism of the New Testament / by Bart D. Ehrman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ehrman, Bart D.

Series:

New Testament tools and studies ; v. 33.

New Testament tools and studies, 0077-8842 ; v. 33

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible. New Testament--Criticism, Textual.

Bible.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (416 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

For the first time in one volume this book presents contributions to the textual criticism of the New Testament made over the past twenty years by Bart Ehrman, one of the premier textual scholars in North America. The collection includes fifteen previously published articles and six lectures (delivered at Duke University and Yale University) on a range of topics of central importance to the field. Following a general essay that gives an introduction to the field for beginners are several essays dealing with text-critical method, especially pertaining to the classification of the Greek manuscript witnesses. There then follow two articles on the history of the text, several articles on important specific textual problems, and three articles on the importance and use of patristic evidence for establishing the text and writing the history of its transmission. The volume concludes with six lectures designed to show the importance not only of reconstructing an allegedly “original” text but also of recognizing how that text was changed by scribes of the early Christian centuries. This book will be of vital interest to any scholar or advanced student of the New Testament and early Christianity. It will make an ideal companion volume for Bart Ehrman’s ground-breaking study, The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture: The Effects of Early Christological Controversies on the Text of the New Testament (Oxford, 1993) and the volume he co-edited with Michael Holmes, The Text of the New Testament in Contemporary Research: Essays on the Status Quaestionis (Eerdmans, 1995).

Contents:

Preliminary Material

The Text of the New Testament

Methodological Developments in the Analysis and Classification of New Testament Documentary Evidence

The Use of Group Profiles for the Classification of New Testament Documentary Evidence

A Problem of Textual Circularity: The Alands on the Classification of New Testament Manuscripts

The Text of the Gospels at the End of the Second Century

The Text as Window: New Testament Manuscripts and the Social History of Early Christianity

A Leper in the Hands of an Angry Jesus

The Text of Mark in the Hands of the Orthodox

The Cup, The Bread, and the Salvific Effect of Jesus’ Death in Luke-Acts

The Angel and the Agony: The Textual Problem of Luke 22:43–44

Jesus and the Adulteress

John 4:3 and the Orthodox Corruption of Scripture

The Use and Significance of Patristic Evidence for Textual Criticism

Heracleon, Origen, and the Text of the Fourth Gospel

Heracleon and the ‘Western’ Textual Tradition

The Theodotians as Corruptors of Scripture

Text and Interpretation: The Exegetical Significance of the “Original” Text

Text and Transmission: The Historical Significance of the “Altered” Text

Lecture One: Christ Come in the Flesh

Christ as Divine Man

Christ Against the Jews

Scripture Index

Author Index

Subject Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1-281-39889-6

9786611398897

90-474-0917-5

OCLC:

568171834

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789047409175 DOI