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The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture
Alternate title: The Effect of Early Christological Controversies on the Text of the New Testament
New York: Oxford University Press, 1993; paperback 1996.
Ehrman argues that some scribal changes in the New Testament arose from second- and third-century Christological controversy. After establishing the diversity of early Christian groups and the fluidity of manuscript transmission, he organizes variants by their apparent anti-adoptionist, anti-separationist, anti-docetic, and anti-patripassian…
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Textual Scholarship and the Making of the New Testament
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
Parker explains how manuscripts, editorial theory, digital tools, and the history of transmission shape what modern readers call the New Testament text. He argues that a work's textual history cannot be reduced to recovery of a single authorial wording, describes the New…
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The Text of the New Testament
Alternate title: Its Transmission, Corruption, and Restoration
New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.
Metzger and Ehrman survey the physical production of ancient books, the principal Greek manuscripts, versions and Fathers, the history of printed editions, causes of accidental and intentional change, theories of transmission, and the practice of evaluating variants. The fourth edition updates Metzger's…
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The Text of the New Testament
Alternate title: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism
Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1989; translated from the German second edition.
Kurt and Barbara Aland provide a comprehensive manual to critical editions, Greek manuscript classification, papyri, uncials, minuscules, lectionaries, ancient versions, patristic citation, and the practical evaluation of variants. The book combines reference tables and manuscript profiles with a concise statement of editorial…
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