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
While the editions of Tischendorf were appearing on the Continent, an
edition began to be issued in England, which was completed in the course
of twenty years. It was the work of a Quaker, Samuel Prideaux TREGELLES
(b. 1813, d. 1875), who, while reaping no profit from his undertaking,
has left in it a monument to his fidelity. In this edition
(1857-1879)[16] those passages in which the editor was unable to
pronounce a final judgment from the accessible material are indicated by
the form of the type.
[Sidenote: Westcott and Hort.]
A still more important advance was made by Brooke Foss WESTCOTT (b.
1825), now Bishop of Durham, and Fenton John Anthony HORT (b. 23rd April
1828, d. 30th November 1892). In 1881, these Cambridge scholars, after
nearly thirty years of joint labour, published two volumes, the first
containing the Text with a brief survey of its history and resulting
criticism, the second giving a detailed exposition of their critical
principles by Hort himself. They were led by their investigation to
distinguish four main types of text:—
(1) A late type, originating in Syria about the year 300, which, issuing
from Constantinople, became the prevailing text in later manuscripts,
and corresponds essentially with the textus receptus of early printed
editions:
(2) A type originating in Alexandria, characterized by linguistic
emendations:
(3) A type originating in Syria but reaching the West previous to the
year 200, represented essentially by the Old Latin versions on the one
hand and by the Syriac on the other, and displaying all sorts of
remarkable additions:
(4) The Neutral text, which displays no sort of corruptions.
Westcott and Hort’s work is the latest and most thorough attempt yet
made at a complete edition of the New Testament.
LITERATURE.—_The New Testament in the original Greek. The text
revised by Brooke Foss Westcott, D.D., and Fenton John Anthony Hort,
D.D._, Cambridge and London. Vol. i. Text (Fourth Edition, 1898).
Vol. ii., Introduction and Appendix (Third Edition, 1896). A smaller
edition of the text, 1885. Text, from new type, in larger form,
1895. For “Some trifling Corrections to W.-H.’s New Testament,” see
Nestle in the _Expository Times_, viii. 479; ix. 95, 333, 424. See
_Life and Letters of F. J. A. Hort, by his son, A. F. Hort, 2 vols.,
London, 1896; also article on Hort_, by Gregory in the PRE^3, viii.
368. Facsimile of the American Edition with Introduction by Schaff,
in Schaff’s _Companion_.
[Sidenote: Weymouth.]
The “Resultant Greek Testament” of R. F. WEYMOUTH affords a convenient
comparison of the text of the most important editions.
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