Eberhard Nestle was a German orientalist and biblical scholar whose 1898 Novum Testamentum Graece compared the editions of Tischendorf, Westcott-Hort, and initially Richard Francis Weymouth, later substituting Bernhard Weiss.
Setting: German Protestant scholarship and Württemberg Bible work.
Eberhard Nestle was a German orientalist and biblical scholar whose 1898 Novum Testamentum Graece compared the editions of Tischendorf, Westcott-Hort, and initially Richard Francis Weymouth, later substituting Bernhard Weiss. The compact edition became the ancestor of the Nestle-Aland series.
The early method must not be described as three independent manuscript votes: the source editions shared evidence and influence. Later editions gradually became direct editorial products rather than simple majority comparisons.
Bibliological positions
A practical critical text can be formed by comparing leading scholarly editions, with significant disagreements documented in an apparatus.
Qualifications and disputes
The editorial basis changed across editions and under Erwin Nestle and later committees.
Claims of independent consensus among the source editions require dependency analysis.
Sources
- German Bible Society — Novum Testamentum Graece history — Publisher history and current edition context
- Internet Archive creator search — Public-domain works
Principal works
- Novum Testamentum Graece (1898); legacy
WRK-1121; EDT; Ready to link after authority review
Historical person network
People, doctrines, texts, and reported interactions
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- Record
- PER-3061
- 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.
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Chris Thomas, “Eberhard Nestle,” PER-3061, Confessional Bibliology Research Center, version 1.0-staging.
Revision history
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