| Part one: The Materials for the testual criticism of the New Testament |
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| I. The Making of Ancient Books |
3 |
| i. The Materials of ancient books |
3 |
| ii. The forms of ancient books |
5 |
| iii. Ancient Scribes and their handiwork |
8 |
| iv. "Helps for readers" in New Testament manuscripst |
19 |
| v. Statistics of greek manuscripts of the New Testament |
31 |
| II. Important Witnesses to the Text of the New Testament |
36 |
| i. Greek manuscripts of the New Testament |
36 |
| ii. Ancient versions of the New Testament |
67 |
| iii. Patristic quotations from the New Testament |
86 |
| 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 |
95 |
| ii. The collection of variant readings |
106 |
| IV. The Modern Critical Period: From Griesbach to the Present |
119 |
| i. The beginnings of scientific textual criticism of the New Testament |
119 |
| ii. The overthrow of the Testus Receptus |
124 |
| 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 |
156 |
| ii. Reactions against classical textual criticism |
159 |
| iii. Statistical methods of textual criticism |
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| iv. Local texts and ancient editions |
169 |
| v. Eclecticism, or "rational criticism" |
175 |
| vi. Methods of determining family relationships among manuscripts |
179 |
| vii. Conjectural emendation |
182 |
| VII. The Causes of Error in the Transmission of the Text of the New Testament |
186 |
| i. Unintentional changes |
186 |
| ii. Intentional changes |
195 |
| VIII. The Practice of New Testament Textual Criticism |
207 |
| i. Basic criteria for the evaluation of variant readings |
207 |
| ii. The process of evaluating variant readings |
211 |
| iii. The textual analysis of selected passages |
219 |
| Appendix. Check-list of the Greek Papyri of the New Testament |
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| Bibliography |
257 |
| Additional notes for the second edition |
261 |
| General index |
275 |
| Index of New Testament passages |
283 |