New Testament textual criticism for non-textual critics - A few suggestions

New Testament Textual Criticism: The Case for Byzantine Priority

1. From the beginning of the modern critical era in the nineteenth century the Byzantine Textform has had a questionable reputation. Associated as it was with the faulty Textus Receptus editions which stemmed from Erasmus' or Ximenes' uncritical selection of a small number of late manuscripts (hereafter MSS), scholars in general have tended to label the Byzantine form of text "late and secondar...

A New Textual/Non-Textual Classifier for Document Skew Correction

This work is supported by National Nature Science Foundation of China (69982005) and Projects of Development Plan of the State Key Foundation Search (G199803050703) Abstract: A robust approach is proposed for document skew detection. We use Fourier analysis and SVM to classify textual areas from non-textual areas of documents. We also propose a robust method to determine the skew angle from tex...

Some Basic Textual Criticism Terms Defined

Textual criticism in Indology and in European

This paper discusses the post-enlightenment development of philology in Europe during the 19-20 centuries, particularly in the German speaking areas. After several centuries of sustained interest in the Graeco-Roman Classics, all types of medieval, older European and Asian literatures became the focus of new textual approaches. Prominent was an historical and critical approach bolstered by the ...

The Relevance of Textual Theories for the Praxis of Textual Criticism

rules. For that reason, we often find such rules mentioned and exemplified in introductions. If these rules are of little help in textual praxis, textual theories are even less beneficial.32 In the textual comparison of readings, our main guides are common sense, experience, and knowledge. Or, in the words of McCarter,33 the textual critic needs training, experience, and a good master. This lea...