Bernhard Weiss was a German Lutheran New Testament scholar, commentator, introduction writer, and editor of a critical Greek text.
Setting: German Lutheran university theology.
Bernhard Weiss was a German Lutheran New Testament scholar, commentator, introduction writer, and editor of a critical Greek text. His editorial work emphasized authorial style and internal evidence and became one of the sources Eberhard Nestle compared in forming the first Nestle text.
His role is often hidden behind the Nestle brand. The Research Center should recover which readings entered the composite text through Weiss and how his exegetical judgments functioned.
Bibliological positions
The text is reconstructed through manuscript evidence joined to close judgments about each author’s language, context, and probable wording.
Qualifications and disputes
Weiss’s critical text, commentaries, and introductions are distinct works; agreement with Nestle does not show independent consensus when Nestle used Weiss as a base.
The relative weight of internal versus external evidence in his actual decisions deserves statistical study.
Sources
- Internet Archive creator search — German works and English translations
Principal works
- Das Neue Testament: Textkritische Untersuchungen und Textherstellung (1894–1900); legacy
WRK-1120; SPLIT; Blocked pending WRK/EDT decomposition
Historical person network
People, doctrines, texts, and reported interactions
Relationship labels distinguish contact, refutation, later reporting, accusation, textual agreement, compatibility, and causation. A connection does not silently inherit the force of another connection.
Interaction chart
No reviewed graph relationships are attached yet.
- Record
- PER-3091
- Status
- Preliminary
- Version
- 1.1-profile
- Review
- Level B — Editorial synthesis
- Editor
- Chris Thomas
- Reviewer
- Independent reviewer pending assignment
- First date
- 2026-07-22 · Exact Day
- Last revised
- 2026-07-22
Evidence and editorial controls
- Verification
- Recovered project data; bibliographic and source-level verification remains record-specific.
- Rights and access
- Original editorial synthesis; cited sources retain their stated rights.
- Known limitations
- Sourced orientation record. Education, dated offices, languages, confessional subscription, verified quotations, and independent review may remain incomplete.
Links from this record
No public outgoing links are recorded.
Records that cite or connect here
No public backlinks are recorded.
Corrections and evidence submissions
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Chris Thomas, “Bernhard Weiss,” PER-3091, Confessional Bibliology Research Center, version 1.0-staging.
Revision history
- — Chris Thomas
- — Chris Thomas