Gerd Mink is a German New Testament textual critic associated with the Institute for New Testament Textual Research in Münster.
Setting: German Protestant university textual scholarship.
Gerd Mink is a German New Testament textual critic associated with the Institute for New Testament Textual Research in Münster. He devised the Coherence-Based Genealogical Method and contributed to the Editio Critica Maior, especially the Catholic Epistles and Acts. The method analyzes relationships between texts across variation units while distinguishing textual from manuscript genealogy.
Mink’s record is essential for explaining that CBGM output is not an automatic manuscript family tree: it depends on editorially constructed local stemmata and is used recursively in editorial reasoning.
Bibliological positions
The initial text can be approached through local stemmata, pre-genealogical and genealogical coherence, and iterative editorial evaluation of textual relationships.
Qualifications and disputes
CBGM can expose previously hidden relationships and does not simply count manuscripts. Accurate critique must describe its stages and data structures.
Debate concerns circularity, editor dependence, treatment of contamination, and how much genealogical coherence should change established readings.
Sources
- INTF — team and former editors — Official institutional role
- INTF blog — Mink on CBGM — Author’s methodological clarification
Principal works
- Manuscripts, Texts, History, and the Coherence-Based Genealogical Method (2019); legacy
WRK-0213; WRK; Ready after permanent-ID allocation and duplicate scan
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-3060
- 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, “Gerd Mink,” PER-3060, Confessional Bibliology Research Center, version 1.0-staging.
Revision history
- — Chris Thomas
- — Chris Thomas