Introduction to the textual criticism of the Greek New TestamentNestle, Eberhard
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Introduction to the textual criticism of the Greek New Testament
Nestle, Eberhard
Bible. New Testament -- Criticism, Textual
Another revision was introduced into France by Alcuin’s contemporary
=Theodulf=, Bishop of Orleans (787-821). He was a Visigoth, born in the
neighbourhood of Narbonne, and the type of text he introduced was taken
essentially from Spanish manuscripts. We have his revision in the
so-called Theodulfian Bible, which formerly belonged to the Cathedral
Church of Orleans, and is now in Paris (Lat. 9380); in its companion
volume, formerly in the Cathedral of Puy, and now in the British Museum
(24142); and in the Bible of St. Hubert, which came from the monastery
of that name in the Ardennes.
[Sidenote: Harding.]
A further revision was made by Stephen =Harding=, third Abbot of
Citeaux. About the year 1109 he prepared a standard Bible for his
congregation, in which the Latin text of the New Testament was corrected
by the Greek. At the same time the Old Testament was revised from the
Hebrew with the help of some Jewish scholars. Harding’s copy of the
standard Bible, in four volumes, is still preserved in the Public
Library at Dijon. A similar work was done for his monastery by William,
Abbot of Hirsau.
[Sidenote: Correctoria.]
Attempts were also made to settle the text by means of the so-called
=Correctoria Bibliorum=, in which those readings which were supposed to
be correct were carefully collected and arranged. The University of
Paris in particular did a great deal in this way, and such was its
influence, that by the middle of the fifteenth century the Parisian text
was the one most commonly followed in manuscripts, and the invention of
printing gave it a complete ascendancy over the others.
[Sidenote: Printed text.]
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