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Identity of the New Testament Text IV
Part of the Majority Text series:
- The Original Ending of Mark
- The Majority Text: Essays and Reviews in the Continuing Debate
- Identity of the New Testament Text IV
- The Identity of the New Testament Text IV
Excerpt:
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There are over 5,000 known Greek manuscripts of the New Testament, over half of which are continuous text copies, the rest being lectionaries. They range in size from a scrap with parts of two verses to complete New Testaments. They range in date from the second century to the sixteenth. They come from all over the Mediterranean world. They contain several hundred thousand variant readings (differences in the text). The vast majority of these are misspellings or other obvious errors due to carelessness or ignorance on the part of the copyists—such are not proper variant readings and may be ignored. However, many thousands of variants remain which need to be evaluated as we seek to identify the precise original wording of the Text. How best to go about such a project? This book seeks to provide an answer.
The Ecclesiastical Text
This is a collection of essays written by Theodore Letis, the Director of the Institute of Renaissance and Reformation Studies, over a period between 1987-1997 and published in journals both popular and academic, while he was a doctoral candidate at the University of Edinburgh. Some are popular, most are rather technical studies treating translation philosophy, text criticism, the Protestant orthodox dogmatic traditions of the seventeenth-century. It also contains four important book reviews and two appendices.In these essays, Letis presents a rigorous defense of the use of the Textus Receptus, or the Ecclesiastical Text, over the various critical texts which have been heavily used since the time of B.B. Warfield. Letis challenges the prevailing notion that Biblical authority is to be found in the original autographs of Scripture by demonstrating a theological shift in the later nineteenth into early twentieth centuries, and consequently arguing that authority is to be found in the apographa, or the text preserved in the church.
Excerpt:
Possibly receiving a much needed reprint
This is a collection of essays written by the Director of the Institute over a period between 1987-1997 and published in journals both popular and academic, while he was a doctoral candidate at the University of Edinburgh. Some are popular, most are rather technical studies treating translation philosophy, text criticism, the Protestant orthodox dogmatic traditions of the seventeenth-century. It also contains four important books reviews and two appendices. Some of these essays first appeared in the early series of the Bulletin.
Table of Contents
Essays
I.   B.B. Warfield, Common-Sense Philosophy and Biblical Criticism.
II.   The Protestant Dogmaticians and the Late Princeton School on the Status of the Sacred Apographa.
III.   The Language of Biblical Authority: From Protestant Orthodoxy to Evangelical Equivocation.
IV.   Brevard Childs and the Protestant Dogmaticians: A Window to a New Paradigm.
V.   John 1:18 and the Egyptian Manuscripts: A Case Study in the Canonical Approach.
VI.   The Protestant Reformation and the Philosophy of Bible Translations.
VII.   The Ecclesiastical Text Redivivus?
VIII.   The Revival of the Ecclesiastical Text and the Claims of the Anabaptists.
Book Reviews
(four)
Appendices
(two)
Disputations on Holy Scripture
Part of the The Authentic Text series:
- The American Church Review
- The three witnesses, the disputed text in st. John
- A Critical Dissertation Upon the 7th Verse of the 5th Chapter of St. John's First Epistle
- Reply to a Vindication of the Literary Character of Professor Porson, by Crito Cantabrigiensis
- In Defense of the Authenticity of 1 John 5:7
- Francis Turretin's Disputatio Theologica
- The Genuineness of the Text of 1 John 5:7
- A New Plea
- Letters to Edward Gibbon by George Travis
- The British Critic, Vol IV, 1794
- The British Magazine
- New criticisms on the celebrated text, I Jn5:7
- JCR: Vol. 12, No. 02
- In Further Proof of the Authenticity of 1 Jn 5v7
- Pious Annotations Upon the Holy Bible
- The printed Hebrew text of the OT vindicated
- A Treatise of the Corruption of Scripture by Rome
- Divine Authority of the New Testament
- A Scholastical History of the Canon
- Exercitations Divine
- R.L. Dabney's Discussions
- Revised Version of the 1st 3 Gospels Considered
- 13 Sermons concerning the Doctrine of the Trinity
- A Vindication of 1 John, v. 7
- Further Proof of the Authenticity of 1 John, v. 7
- An Introduction to the Controversy on the Disputed Verse of St. John
- The Divine Triunity
- William Twisse's The Scripture's Sufficiency
- Select Works of Robert Rollock Vols 1 & 2
- On Holy Scriptures from Elenctic Theology Vol 1to 3
- From Sacred Text to Religious Text
- Disputations on Holy Scripture
- The King James Version Defended
Excerpt:
One of the premier issues that divides Protestants from Roman Catholics is the question of the place of Scripture. Protestants declare that the Scriptures alone are the rule of faith and practice, while Roman Catholics assert that it is Scripture and the traditions held by the Church that constitute the final word on a matter. This debate is not new. William Whitaker (1547-1595) championed the Protestant position in this book, first printed in 1588. He deals with the number of canonical books, the authority of Scripture, the perspicuity (clarity) of Scripture, the proper interpretation of Scripture, and the perfection of Scripture against unwritten traditions.
The Majority Text: Essays and Reviews in the Continuing Debate
Part of the Majority Text series:
- The Original Ending of Mark
- The Majority Text: Essays and Reviews in the Continuing Debate
- Identity of the New Testament Text IV
- The Identity of the New Testament Text IV
Excerpt:
Possibly receiving a much needed reprint
This was a collection of essays gathered together to further the debate surrounding the call to revive the Byzantine, or what some call the Majority Text (we at the Institute call this the Ecclesiastical Text). Eldon J. Epp declared in 1979 that there was such a revival under way ("New Testament Textual Criticism in America: Requiem for a Discipline," Journal of Biblical Literature 98 (March 1978): 94-98. This announcement was in response to a book by Wilbur Pickering, titled: The Identity of the New Testament Text, a debate that appeared in the Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society (vols. 21, nos. 1-2, 1978), and the edition of the Majority Greek New Testament that would be published by Thomas Nelson and edited by Zane Hodges, et al., 1982. The Introduction to this collection offers an assessment of the so-called Majority Text school out of mainly Dallas Theological Seminary.
The second edition (cover shown here) is now available.
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