The textual history of the Greek New Testament : changing views in contemporary research / [manuscript] : edited by Klaus Wachtel and Michael W. Holmes. - Atlanta : Society of Biblical Literature, c2011. - viii, 226 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. - Society of Biblical Literature text-critical studies ; no. 8 . - Text-critical studies ; v. 8. .

Papers presented at a colloquium held in August, 2008, in M|nster, Germany, by the Institute for New Testament Textual Research and the German Bible Society.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction / Klaus Wachtel and Michael Holmes -- Is "living text" compatible with "initial text"? : editing the Gospel of John / D.C. Parker -- Original text and textual history / Holger Strutwolf -- The need to discern distinctive editions of the New Testament in the manuscript tradition / David Trobisch -- Conceptualizing "scribal" performances : reader's notes / Ulrich Schmid -- Working with an open textual tradition : challenges in theory and practice / Michael Holmes -- Traditional "canons" of New Testament textual criticism : their value, validity, and viability-or lack thereof / Eldon Jay Epp -- What should be in an apparatus criticus? : desiderata to support a thoroughgoing eclectic approach to textual criticism / J.K. Elliott -- Contaminant, coherence, and coincidence in textual criticism / Gerd Mink -- Conclusions / Klaus Wachtel.

9781589836242 (paper binding : alk. paper)

2011042791


Bible.--New Testament--Criticism, Textual--Congresses.
Bible. Greek --New Testament.--Criticism, Textual--Congresses.

BS2325 / .T49 2011

225.4/86