A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. II

by Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener

Publishers:

George Bell and Sons; Deighton Bell and Co.

, 1894

Overview

This classic text by one of the greatest textual critics offers an extensive introduction to New Testament textual criticism, tailored with the student in mind. Scrivener also includes several lithographed plates to illustrate issues and principles through actual examples from New Testament manuscripts. Volume two provides extensive discussion of versional witnesses to the textual history of the New Testament and early printed and critical editions. Scrivener then discusses the principles of textual criticism applied to the text, a history of the New Testament text, and various critical theories of New Testament textual criticism. Volume two concludes with an extensive sampling of passages illustrating the principles taught in the book.

Contents

Top Highlights

“Erasmus’ first edition is in that respect the most faulty book I know” (Page 185)

Product Details

• Title: A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. II
• Author: Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener
• Edition: Fourth Edition
• Series: A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament
• Publishers: George Bell and Sons, Deighton Bell and Co.
• Print Publication Date: 1894
• Logos Release Date: 2014
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Bible. N.T. › Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Resource ID: LLS:NTXCRTSCRIVENER02
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-11T15:47:50Z

About Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener

F. H. A. Scrivener (1813–1891) was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, and published a variety of works of New Testament scholarship while working as a clergyman and headmaster. In an age when previously unknown manuscript fragments of New Testament texts were being discovered, his skills as a transcriber and collator of these texts were greatly respected. This volume, first published in 1881, is an edition of the Greek text underlying the Revised Version of the New Testament, also published in 1881. It seeks to provide scholars with both a faithful version of the text as it was used by the translators of the Authorised Version (1611), and also extensive notes listing the changes in readings made for the Revised Version, giving the reader a fuller picture of the evolution of the translation. A valuable resource for understanding the version of the Bible used for four centuries in the English-speaking world.