Hermann von Soden was a German theologian whose vast Die Schriften des Neuen Testaments attempted a comprehensive classification of New Testament manuscripts, textual recensions, and readings.
Setting: German Protestant university and Berlin church setting.
Hermann von Soden was a German theologian whose vast Die Schriften des Neuen Testaments attempted a comprehensive classification of New Testament manuscripts, textual recensions, and readings. His sigla and groupings were complex, and later scholars both mined and criticized the enterprise.
The project belongs in the database because it shows the scale and fragility of system-building before digital databases. Older references often require conversion from von Soden numbers to Gregory-Aland identifiers.
Bibliological positions
The textual tradition can be organized into historical recensions and subgroups from which a critical text is reconstructed.
Qualifications and disputes
His classification contains errors and has not remained the standard; its raw collations may still be valuable.
The reality of his I, H, and K groups and the reliability of his collations are debated.
Sources
- Internet Archive creator search — Die Schriften and other works
Principal works
- Die Schriften des Neuen Testaments in ihrer ältesten erreichbaren Textgestalt (1902–1913); legacy
WRK-1122; 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-3073
- 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
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Records that cite or connect here
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Corrections and evidence submissions
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Chris Thomas, “Hermann von Soden,” PER-3073, Confessional Bibliology Research Center, version 1.0-staging.
Revision history
- — Chris Thomas
- — Chris Thomas