The text of the New Testament :

Metzger, Bruce Manning.

The text of the New Testament : its transmission, corruption, and restoration / Bruce M. Metzger, Bart D. Ehrman. - 4th ed. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005. - xvi, 366 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 345-348) and indexes.

Part I: The materials for the textual criticism of the New Testament -- The making of ancient books -- Important witnesses to the text of the New Testament -- Part II: the history of the New Testament textual criticism as reflected in printed editions of the Greek Testament -- The precritical period : the origin and dominance of the textus receptus -- The modern critical period : from Griesbach to the present -- Part III: The application of textual criticism to the text of the New Testament -- The origins of textual criticism as a scholarly discipline -- Modern methods of textual criticism -- The causes of error in the transmission of the text of the New Testament -- History of the transmission of the text of the New Testament -- The practice of New Testament textual criticism.

019516122X (pbk. : alk. paper) 0195166671 (alk. paper) 9780195166675 (alk. paper) 9780195161229 (pbk. : alk. paper)

GBA538817 bnb

013190326 Uk


Bible.--New Testament--Criticism, Textual.
Bible.--New Testament--History.

BS2325 / .M4 2005

225.4/86