NEW TESTAMENT TEXTUAL CRITICISM

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...

New Testament Use of the Old Testament

The present writer has counted 224 direct citations introduced by a definite formula indicating the writer purposed to quote. To these must be added seven cases where a second quotation is introduced by the conjunction “and,” and 19 cases where a paraphrase or summary rather than a direct quotation follows the introductory formula. We may further note at least 45 instances where the similarity ...

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 ...

New Testament Studies

New Testament Studies / Volume 60 / Issue 02 / April 2014, pp 215 231 DOI: 10.1017/S0028688513000362, Published online: 14 March 2014 Link to this article: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S0028688513000362 How to cite this article: Brendan Byrne, SJ (2014). Jerusalems Above and Below: A Critique of J. L. Martyn's Interpretation of the Hagar–Sarah Allegory in Gal 4.21–5.1. . New Testament...