The Textual History of the Greek New Testament: Changing Views in Contemporary Research (Text-Critical Studies) by Klaus Wachtel (PDF)

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Papers presented at a colloquium held in August, 2008, in M’unster, Germany, by the Institute for New Testament Textual Research and the German Bible Society.

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Editorial Reviews: About the Author Klaus Wachtel is Research Associate, Institut für Neutestamentliche Textforschung at Münster University. He is co-editor of Novum Testamentum Graecum, Editio Critica Maior. Michael W. Holmes is University Professor of Biblical Studies and Early Christianity at Bethel University. He is editor of The Greek New Testament: SBL Edition.

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⭐This is one of only a few resources to provide interested readers an up-to-date account/ overview of the field of NT Textual Criticism. I am hoping to compare this with Brill’s 2014 edition of ‘The Text of the New Testament in Contemporary Research’ in the future, to see how they stack up against each other.{I desired a hardcover version of this book and had to wait a year before I got it at a great price of $20. You may want to just go with the paperback (the hardcover isn’t cheap quality, but it also isn’t the high quality cloth bound that brill has done on other works}I admit that I have not yet read pages 140-205 where Gerd Mink discusses the CBGM. I have already read Gurry & Wasserman’s introduction to CBGM, and that was enough work for me. It may be a couple months before I dive into it again with Mink, and I am sure I will not regret doing so. Perhaps I will then be able to compare it to Wasserman and Gurry’s introduction, to see if this smaller essay by Mink would suffice as an introduction to CBGM.The first 140 pages I did read, however, were all fantastic. I must say that Epp stole the show again (for me at least). I can’t articulate every reason why, but I just can’t put Epp down. Epp wants to build from the ground up. He is not content with going about the practice using outdated/ imprecise/ faulty methods. And in my view, he is the one textual critic who succeeds better than all others in truly building from the ground up. I feel like he has thought the most widely and most deeply on New Testament textual criticism, and I think he will go down in history as one of the (if not “the”) Westcott-Hort of our day. In pages 79-139 he details the history of the canons and also lays out “criteria” for today (explaining the difference between “canons” and “criterion”). All I can say is it is pure gold. This essay should be mandatory reading for every exegete/ commentator who ever wishes to practice textual criticism on the New Testament.Micheal Holmes gave a fascinating and brilliant discussion of the challenges of an open Textual tradition in pages 65-78.All other contributors offered excellent essays as well. Trobisch, Schmid, Parker, Strutwolf, and Wachtel are sincerely thanked.Parker presents an amazing essay discussing whether or not his belief in the “living text” of the Gospels can actually work in practice, not just in theory – when it comes time to do the work of an editor and produce a critical text. An incredible piece of writing.Schmid offers highly important discussion on the nature of variants, which effects the entire enterprise of textual criticism as a whole. Are the variants from actual scribes, or from the personal notes of a reader? We need to differentiate whether the variant is due to a scribe, or a general reader. For this absolutely effects our view of ‘scribal tendencies.’ Fantastic essay.Trobisch follows where the trail of his earlier work (‘The First Edition of the New Testament’) naturally leads. He forces the editor’s hand – What is your true goal? The original text that contained no titles to the works, or the published edition which contains the titles? Nomina Sacra? The stuff Trobisch mentions in these few pages is huge. Pure gold.Strutwolf keeps everyone pointed ‘true north’ by reminding us that it is still okay to retain the concept of an ‘original text,’ even if we accept modern discussion and the difficulties with the term/ concept of “original text.”All in all, this volume is a fantastic resource and reference work for those seeking to peer into the scholarly world of New Testament Textual Criticism (NT TC). For the prospective buyer, some aquaintance with the discipline of NT TC is recommended before reading this volume. I honestly do not think you will understand any of it if you have never read a book on NT TC. You should start with an introduction to the discipline, like those of Metzger, Aland, or Comfort (see my reviews of these works for help determining which introduction is right for you).Contents of the Book:Introduction (the editors) – pg 1Is “Living Text” Compatible with “Intial Text?” Editing the Gospel of John (D.C. Parker) – pg 13Original Text and Textual History (Holger Strutwolf) – pg 23The Need to Discern Distinctive Editions of the New Testament in the Manuscript Tradition (David Trobisch) – pg 43Conceptualizing “Scribal” Performances: Reader’s Notes (Ulrich Schmid) – pg 49Working with an Open Textual Tradition: Challenges in Theory and Practice (Micheal W. Holmes) – pg 65Traditional “Canons” of New Testament Textual Criticism: Their Value, Validity, and Viability-or Lack Thereof (Eldon Jay Epp) – pg 79What Should Be in an Apparatus Criticus? Desiderata to Support a Thoroughgoing Eclectic Approach to Textual Criticism (J.K. Elliott) – pg 129Contamination, Coherence, and Coincidence in Textual Transmission (Gerd Mink) – pg 141Conclusions (Klaus Wachtel) – pg 217

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