Perspectives on New Testament textual criticism
Subtitle: collected essays, 2006-2017
By: by Eldon Jay Epp
Series: Supplements to Novum Testamentum -- volume 181; Supplements to Novum Testamentum -- v. 181.
Publisher: Koninklijke Brill NV
Published: 2021
Place of publication: Leiden
Language: eng
Number of pages: 825
ISBN-13: 9789004438774
Subjects: Textual Criticism; Criticism; Critique textuelle; Textkritik; Nieuwe Testament; Tekstkritiek; Bible; Bibel; New Testament
Description: Eldon Jay Epp's second volume of collected essays consists of articles previously published during 2006-2017. All treat aspects of the New Testament textual criticism, but focus on historical and methodological issues relevant to constructing the earliest attainable text of New Testament writings.00More specific emphasis falls upon the nature of textual transmission and the text-critical process, and heavily on the criteria employed in establishing that earliest available text. Moreover, textual grouping is examined at length, and prominent is the current approach to textual variants not approved for the constructed text, for they have stories to tell regarding theological, ethical, and real-life issues as the early Christian churches sought to work out their own status, practices, and destiny.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction to volume two, 2020 -- Introduction to volume one, 2005 : A half-century adventure with New Testament textual criticism; title: The Jews and the Jewish community in Oxyrhynchus : socio-religious context for the New Testament papyri --; title: Minor textual variants in Romans 16:7 --; title: It's all about variants : a variant-conscious approach to New Testament textual criticism --; title: Are early New Testament manuscripts truly abundant? --; title: The New Testament papyri and the transmission of the New Testament --; title: The disputed words of the Eucharistic institution (Luke 22,19b-20) : the long and short of the matter --; title: Traditional "canons" of New Testament textual criticism : their value, validity, and viability--or lack thereof --; title: Textual criticism and New Testament interpretation --; title: The papyrus manuscripts of the New Testament --; title: Textual clusters : their past and future in New Testament textual criticism --; title: In the beginning was the New Testament text, but which text? : a consideration of 'Ausgangstext' and "initial text" --; title: Why does New Testament textual criticism matter? : refined definitions and fresh directions --; title: How New Testament textual variants embody and exhibit prior textual traditions --; title: Codex Sinaiticus : its entrance into the mid-nineteenth century text-critical environment and its impact on the New Testament text --; title: Critical editions and the development of text-critical methods, part 1: from Erasmus to Griesbach (1516-1807) --; title: Critical editions and the development of text-critical methods, part 2: from Lachmann (1831) to the present --; title: The late Constantin Tischendorf and Codex Sinaiticus : New Testament textual criticism without them--an exercise in erasure history --; title: Early Christian attitudes toward 'things Jewish' as narrated by textual variants in Acts : a case study of the D-textual cluster --; title: Text-critical witnesses and methodology for isolating a distinctive D-text in Acts -- -- Appendix. Previously published items and a previously unpublished lecture that reflect the recent history of New Testament textual criticism.; title: Textual criticism : New Testament Anchor Bible Dictionary (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1992) Vol. 6, 412-35 --; title: The American Textual Criticism Seminar : retrospect and prospect (previously unpublished) 1967 --; title: The "foreword" to a reprint of the Greek New Testament in the original Greek by Brooke Foss Westcott and Fenton John Anthony Hort, 1881 (2007).