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Textual Criticism
Part I
BeginningsTasksTermsManuscriptsCriteriaNew Finds
© Peter Arzt-Grabner 2006
Textual Criticism – Beginnings
Erasmus of Rotterdam, March 1, 1516Novum Instrumentum omne(own translation of Rev. 22:16–21 into Greek)
Complutensian Polyglot, July 10, 1517 (March 22, 1520 papal authorization)Cardinal and archbishop of Toledo, XiménesUniversity of Alcalá (= Roman Complutum)
Textual Criticism – Tasks
Collecting manuscripts Developing methods Conjectures Nowadays: conjectures amount to
capitulation before the difficulties and are themselves violations of the text.
Terms
Hebrew Bible, Septuagint, Targums, Christian
Bible (Old Testament – New Testament)
Hebrew, Greek
Translations
Manuscripts
Book (Printing)
Computer
Manuscripts
Papyri:
52
about 125 CE
John 18:31–33.37–38
John Rylands Library,
Manchester (Gr. P 457)
Manuscripts
Uncials: a 01, A 02, … Minuscules: 1, 2, … Translations: Greek (LXX), Latin
(Vulgate), Syriac (Peshitta), Ethiopic, Coptic, Old Slavonic, Gothic …
(Church Fathers)
Papyri: P
Textual Criticism Today
Institut für Neutestamentliche Textforschung in
Münster: http://www.uni-muenster.de/INTF/
Nestle-Aland, 27th edition
Greek New Testament, 4th edition
Editio critica maior
Forthcoming: Nestle-Aland, 28th edition
Digital Nestle-Aland: prototype
http://nestlealand.uni-muenster.de/
Textual Criticism – Selected Criteria
Greek (Hebrew) Text – Translations – Church Fathers
Manuscripts should be weighed, not counted Older reading is more probable reading lectio difficilior lectio potior lectio brevior lectio potior
New Finds – Qumran
Old Testament: Isaiah (Scroll), Commentary on Habakkuk
New Finds – Qumran
Old Testament: Isaiah (Scroll), Commentary on Habakkuk
New Testament – Sorry, no! 7Q5
New Finds – Qumran: 7Q5
11 (?) letters Jose O’Callaghan
Carsten Peter Thiede
Mark 6:52–53
New Finds – Qumran: 7Q5
Stefan Enste
Some sensations can actually fail to just one letter
New Finds – P.Oxy. LXVI 4499
Published 1999 Juan Chapa Oldest fragments
of a codex with Revelation (late 3rd/early 4th cent.)(2:1–3.13–15.27–29; 3:10–12; 5:8–9; 6:5–6; 8:3–8.11–9:5.7–16.18–10:4.8–11:5.8–15.18–12:5.8–10.12–17; 13:1–3.6–16.18–14:3.5–7.10–11.14–15.18–15:1.4–7)
New Finds – P.Oxy. LXVI 4499
New Finds – P.Bingen 16
Published 2000 Peter Arzt-Grabner
and Michael Ernst Ps. 43:21–24.27
and Ps. 44:1–2 LXX 4th/5th cent.