Part one: The Materials for the testual criticism of the New Testament |
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I. The Making of Ancient Books |
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i. The Materials of ancient books |
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ii. The forms of ancient books |
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iii. Ancient Scribes and their handiwork |
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iv. "Helps for readers" in New Testament manuscripst |
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v. Statistics of greek manuscripts of the New Testament |
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II. Important Witnesses to the Text of the New Testament |
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i. Greek manuscripts of the New Testament |
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ii. Ancient versions of the New Testament |
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iii. Patristic quotations from the New Testament |
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Part two: The history of New Testament textual criticism as reflected in printed editions of the Greek Testament |
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III. The Pre-critical Period: The Origin and Diminance of the Textus Receptus |
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i. From ximentes and reasmus to the elzevirs |
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ii. The collection of variant readings |
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IV. The Modern Critical Period: From Griesbach to the Present |
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i. The beginnings of scientific textual criticism of the New Testament |
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ii. The overthrow of the Testus Receptus |
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Part three: The Application of textual criticism to the text of the New Testament |
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V. The Origins of Textual Criticism as a Scholarly Discipline |
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VI. Modern Methods of Textual Criticism |
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i. The classical method of textual criticism |
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ii. Reactions against classical textual criticism |
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iii. Statistical methods of textual criticism |
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iv. Local texts and ancient editions |
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v. Eclecticism, or "rational criticism" |
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vi. Methods of determining family relationships among manuscripts |
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vii. Conjectural emendation |
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VII. The Causes of Error in the Transmission of the Text of the New Testament |
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i. Unintentional changes |
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ii. Intentional changes |
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VIII. The Practice of New Testament Textual Criticism |
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i. Basic criteria for the evaluation of variant readings |
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ii. The process of evaluating variant readings |
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iii. The textual analysis of selected passages |
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Appendix. Check-list of the Greek Papyri of the New Testament |
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Bibliography |
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Additional notes for the second edition |
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General index |
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Index of New Testament passages |
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