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Last Updated:  Jul 15, 2013 



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General Articles - textual criticism, canons
Text-Types - proposals, origins, background
Key Passages - special cases, analysis



 Articles by Topic

General Textual Criticism:
Michaelis (1802): Conjecture merits & limits
W. Milligan (1873) Lachmann's method - sales job
Dean Burgon (1896) Updated! - in modern language
A. Harnack (1897): 19th Cent. Criticism: & skepticism
Lowe/Rand (1922): Dating Uncials: features of age
C. S. Lewis (1950) NT Textual Criticism - & credibility
T.Finney (/96) Missing MSS - copy-center displacement?
M. Robinson (/06) Majority Method - D.Black Interview
J. Snapp Jr. (/10) Majority Method - NET talk
Nazaroo (2010) Base-Texts - & Maj.Text
J. Snapp jr.: 'Equitable Eclecticism' new!
E.M.Thompson (1893): Tachygraphy new!

TC Canons: ...text-critical rules
Bengel (1742) - early canons
Griesbach (1796) - 13 Canons (xlat./Notes:Alford)
Gerrard (1823) - cases, rating variants
Lachmann (1842) - 6 TC Canons
Milligan (1873) - 7 TC Canons, 3 Internal
Hort (1882) - canons extracted by G.Fee
Lias (1893) - abstracted canons
Burgon (1896) - 7 TC Principles
K.Aland (1989) - 12 Rules, 'reasoned eclecticism'
D.A. Black (1994) - 4 Views/Methods

Critical Greek Texts: ...modern reconstructed NTs
Printed Greek Texts - Articles on Text-Critical Editors
Errors in Greek Texts - Changes in the Printed Text

In-House: John 8:1-11 etc.
The Missing MSS for John 8:1-11 - early recycling?
True Meaning of 'Critical Marks' - NOT relevant!
Ten Defenders of 8:1-11 - 10 famous scholars & PA


Articles on Text-Types

General Articles:
M. Stuart (1836) Text-Types: state of knowledge 1830s
Strong (1877) Text-Types: the view by 1879 new!

Byzantine Text:
Scholz (1830) Byzantine text - clear & pragmatic
J. Newman (1839) on Scholz - 2 text-types
J. Burgon (1883) 'Syrian' Recension - re-assessed
Montgomery (1929) Lucianic Revision - O.T. info
B. Metzger (1963) Lucianic Recension - its existance
G. Fee (1993) Majority Text - vs. Hodges
M. Robinson (2001) Byzantine Text - its priority
Snapp/Warner (2006) Lucian Recension - its existance
Snapp/Nazaroo (2010) Majority Text - origin, methodology
R. Frazier (2011) "Harmonizations" - in Byz. text? new!

Western Text:
F. Hort (1882) Western Text - inferior but ancient
R. Harris (1891) Western Text - and the PA
J. Robinson (1893) Western Text & the PA
K. Lake (1908) Western Text - current theories
W. Strange (1992) Western Text - its nature

Other Text-types:
F. Kenyon (1936) Caesarean Text - families, groups
C. M. Martini (1980) Alexandrian Text - a history
L. Hurtado (1981) pre-Caesarean Text - an assessment



 Articles on Key Passages

Key Passages: Readings & Variation Units
verseyearauthorcomment
Matt. 9:34 1992G.N. Stanton - deliberate omission
Matt.21:28-31 1886FHA Scrivener & PA: Hort's smokescreen
Luke 22:19-20 2006B. Billings Syriac & the PA!
John 1:18 2010Nazaroo - flaws in methodology
John 5:3-4 1889FHA Scrivener - intro to variant
Acts 8:37 1857J.A. Alexander - inclusion vouched
Acts 15:34-35 2010Nazaroo Haplography & mod. versions
Rom. 11:6 2011Daniel Buck Haplography UBS text
1 Cor. 9:2 2010Earlham U. Haplography Codex A
1 Cor. 10:28 2010Nazaroo Haplography & mod. versions
2 Cor 8:4 2010J. Krans - famous error
1 Jn 5:7 1821T. Burgess - classic defence

Coming soon:
Harris on Exemplars behind Aleph/B
Birdsall on Western Text
Lucianic Recension Debate
A History of Text-critical Method & PA
An Exhaustive Text-Critical Commentary on PA




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