Studies in the textual criticism of the New Testament / / by Bart D. Ehrman.

• Superior document: New Testament tools and studies, v. 33
• Author: Ehrman, Bart D.
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: New Testament tools and studies ; v. 33.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (416 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

For the first time in one volume this book presents contributions to the textual criticism of the New Testament made over the past twenty years by Bart Ehrman, one of the premier textual scholars in North America. The collection includes fifteen previously published articles and six lectures (delivered at Duke University and Yale University) on a range of topics of central importance to the field. Following a general essay that gives an introduction to the field for beginners are several essays dealing with text-critical method, especially pertaining to the classification of the Greek manuscript witnesses. There then follow two articles on the history of the text, several articles on important specific textual problems, and three articles on the importance and use of patristic evidence for establishing the text and writing the history of its transmission. The volume concludes with six lectures designed to show the importance not only of reconstructing an allegedly “original” text but also of recognizing how that text was changed by scribes of the early Christian centuries. This book will be of vital interest to any scholar or advanced student of the New Testament and early Christianity. It will make an ideal companion volume for Bart Ehrman’s ground-breaking study, The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture: The Effects of Early Christological Controversies on the Text of the New Testament (Oxford, 1993) and the volume he co-edited with Michael Holmes, The Text of the New Testament in Contemporary Research: Essays on the Status Quaestionis (Eerdmans, 1995).

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- The Text of the New Testament -- Methodological Developments in the Analysis and Classification of New Testament Documentary Evidence -- The Use of Group Profiles for the Classification of New Testament Documentary Evidence -- A Problem of Textual Circularity: The Alands on the Classification of New Testament Manuscripts -- The Text of the Gospels at the End of the Second Century -- The Text as Window: New Testament Manuscripts and the Social History of Early Christianity -- A Leper in the Hands of an Angry Jesus -- The Text of Mark in the Hands of the Orthodox -- The Cup, The Bread, and the Salvific Effect of Jesus’ Death in Luke-Acts -- The Angel and the Agony: The Textual Problem of Luke 22:43–44 -- Jesus and the Adulteress -- John 4:3 and the Orthodox Corruption of Scripture -- The Use and Significance of Patristic Evidence for Textual Criticism -- Heracleon, Origen, and the Text of the Fourth Gospel -- Heracleon and the ‘Western’ Textual Tradition -- The Theodotians as Corruptors of Scripture -- Text and Interpretation: The Exegetical Significance of the “Original” Text -- Text and Transmission: The Historical Significance of the “Altered” Text -- Lecture One: Christ Come in the Flesh -- Christ as Divine Man -- Christ Against the Jews -- Scripture Index -- Author Index -- Subject Index.