Johann Jakob Wettstein's Principles for New Testament textual criticism
Subtitle: a fight for scholarly freedom
By: by Silvia Castelli
Contributors: Wettstein, Johann Jakob, 1693-1754; Wettstein, Johann Jakob, 1693-1754
Series: New Testament tools, studies and documents -- volume 62; New Testament tools, studies and documents -- v. 62.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 562
ISBN-13: 9789004435636; 9789004436176
Subjects: Textual Criticism; Bible
Description: "In Johann Jakob Wettstein's Principles for New Testament Textual Criticism Silvia Castelli investigates the genesis, development, and legacy of Wettstein's criteria for evaluating New Testament variant readings. Wettstein's guidelines, the Animadversiones et cautiones, are the first well-organized essay on New Testament text-critical methodology, first published in the Prolegomena to his New Testament in 1730 and republished with some changes in 1752. In his essay, Wettstein presents a new text-critical method based on the manuscripts' evidence and on the critic's judgment. Moving away from the authority invested in established printed editions, Wettstein's methodology thus effectively promotes and enhances intellectual freedom. The second part of this volume offers a critical text and an annotated English translation of Wettstein's text-critical principles"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Part 1 in English, Part 2 is a facing page translation with Latin on the versos and English on the rectos..
Table of contents: title: Part 1. Genesis, development, and legacy of Wettstein's Animadversiones; title: Introduction; title: The development of new text-critical rules in the early eighteenth century: From Clericus's Ars critica to Bengel's Prodromus; title: The two editions of Wettstein's text-criticial principles; title: Wettstein's contribution to text-critical methodology; title: The textual critic at work: Between theory and practice; title: Reception and legacy of Wettstein's principles; title: Summary and conclusions; title: Desiderata; title: Appendix: Manuscripts personally inspected by Wettstein by 1730; title: Part 2. Edition and translation of Wettstein's Animadversiones; title: Introduction: Editing the text of Prolegomena 1730; title: Conspectus Siglorum; title: Animadversiones et cautiones ad examen variarum lectionum N. T. necessariae.