Handbook to the Textual Criticism of the New Testament
Overview
This classic handbook on textual criticism is a helpful reference work, with discussions of the papyri, uncial and miniscule manuscripts, ancient versions, and patristic quotations of the New Testament. Frederic Kenyon also provides many plates of important manuscripts for a firsthand look at the textual tradition of the New Testament.
- Examines the textual tradition of the New Testament
- Offers a reference work to textual criticism
- Discusses several aspects of the New Testament
Top Highlights
“Taking the Greek and Latin (not the Syriac) Fathers who died before a.d. 400, their quotations are found to support the Traditional Text in 2630 instances, the ‘neologian’ in 1753. Nor is this majority due solely to the writers who belong to the end of this period. On the contrary, if only the earliest writers be taken, from Clement of Rome to Irenaeus and Hippolytus, the majority in favour of the Traditional Text is proportionately even greater, 151 to 84.” (Page 275)
“The thirty ‘traditional’ readings, which he shows to be so overwhelmingly vindicated by the Fathers, are not what Hort would call pure ‘Syrian’ readings at all. In nearly every case they have Western or Neutral attestation in addition to that of the later authorities.” (Page 276)
“History makes it clear that God in His wisdom has permitted great deviations in the tradition of the sacred text through the frailty of its human trustees, though always so that its substance was not lost or seriously endangered.” (Page 272)
“After all, there is no insuperable difficulty in imagining the existence of two or more types of text in the same country.” (Page 287)
“ it can be shown to be both older and intrinsically better than its rival, which they call the ‘neologian’ text” (Page 270)
- Title: Handbook to the Textual Criticism of the New Testament
- Author: Frederic George Kenyon
- Publisher: Macmillan and Co.
- Publication Date: 1901
- Pages: 321
- Resource Type: Topical
- Topic: Textual Criticism