The Significance of Grouping of New Testament Manusripts

1958 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 73-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. C. Colwell
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Future Study ◽  
Text Types

New Testament manuscripts have been grouped by scholars into ‘Texts’ like Hort's Neutral, Western, Alexandrian, and Syrian. They have been grouped in ‘Families’ like Family I and Family Π, and into ‘Text-types’ and subgroups of types—as in the work of von Soden. The question as to the significance of these groupings of New Testament manuscripts can be answered by taking either of two sharply opposed positions. The first regards these groupings as of paramount importance; the second sees no importance in them. Both these positions have been taken by a number of scholars in modern study of New Testament manuscripts. A third mediating position is possible, and it is the purpose of this paper to urge that it be taken and to point out its implications for specific procedures in future study of New Testament manuscripts.

Codex Sinaiticus in the Gospel of John: A Contribution to Methodology in establishing textual relationships

1968 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gordon D. Fee
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Gospel Of John ◽  
Text Type ◽  
Textual Relationships ◽  
Textual History ◽  
Text Types ◽  
Important Study ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
History Of ◽  
Codex Sinaiticus

In his important study on the origin of text-types, Ernest C. Colwell concludes with ten suggestions for further investigation and criticism. The ninth of these suggestions reads: ‘The textual history of the New Testament differs from corpus to corpus, and even from book to book; therefore the witnesses have to be regrouped in each new section.’ A corollary to this suggestion is the fact that certain manuscripts also differ from book to book—and even within books—as to the type of text they represent. Codex W, which makes a distinct change from a Neutral to a Byzantine type of text at Luke viii. 12 and is Western in Mark i. I–V. 30, is an example of this kind of ‘divided’ MS. Therefore, in the latest manuals text-type groupings which both regroup from corpus to corpus and recognize the ‘divided’ nature of certain MSS, appear as a matter of course.

scholarly journals Prolegomena to Bentley’s Unfinished New Testament Project

2020 ◽  
Vol 62 (3) ◽  
pp. 322-338
Author(s):  
An-Ting Yi ◽  
Jan Krans ◽  
Bert Jan Lietaert Peerbolte
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
New Testament ◽  
Future Study ◽  
Trinity College ◽  
Classical Scholar ◽  
Secondary Literature

Abstract It is well known that the eighteenth-century classical scholar Richard Bentley once announced but never finished an ambitious project for a critical NT edition. What is less well known is that numerous entries of his archive have been preserved in Wren Library of Trinity College (TCL), Cambridge, until today. This article provides some prolegomena to a comprehensive enquiry into Bentley’s unfinished NT project. It includes an updated summary of the archive, relevant secondary literature, a few examples for illustration, and on the basis of all this, some suggestions for future study.

scholarly journals A research proposal for a new commentary on John

2000 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Landon
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Gospel Of John ◽  
Research Proposal ◽  
Text Types ◽  
Greek New Testament

The author offers a research proposal for a new commentary on the Gospel of John, provisionally entitled An Internal Textual Commentary on John, Part I: A Commentary on the Apparatus to NA27; Part J/: A Selective Commentary on the Apparatus to Tischendorf and Elliott & Parker. In the proposal, he responds to criticism of his previous work on Jude offered by Peter Head in Novum Testamentum 61(2) 181-185. The proposed work on John will not exemplify thorough-going eclecticism in practice, but will instead measure (1) the internal strength of three major text-types, and (2) the internal strength of two editions of the Greek New Testament, NA27 and Westcott & Hort (1881).

scholarly journals De ballingschap van de Byzantijnse tekst

1994 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Van Bruggen
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
The Other ◽  
Original Text ◽  
Ancient Text ◽  
Text Type ◽  
Text Types ◽  
The New Testament

For more than a century the Byzantine Text-type has been in exile. Mean­while, endeavours to re-establish the original text of the New Testament have not succeeded. The question thus arises whether it is necessary to keep the banished text silent forever. This article describes the revival of a plea for listening also to the Byzantine Text-type in restoring the ancient text. Arguments against this text in exile are evaluated. Two points in favour of the banished text are introduced: 1. Its readings are nearly always supported by one or more of the other text-types: why should the accom­plices go scot-free? 2. Its readings have more than once the flavour of authenticity: why should we leave innocent readings in exile?

scholarly journals Westerse teks, Alexandrynse teks en die oorspronklike teks van die Nuwe Testament: Is daar ’n oplossing vir die probleem?

1991 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
J. H. Petzer
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Textual Criticism ◽  
Original Text ◽  
Text Types ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
History Of

Western text, Alexandrian text and the original text of the New Testament - is there a solution to the problem? This article discusses the debate concerning the problems of the so-called Western text in New Testament textual criticism. Traditional views, such as those of Westcott & Hort, Ropes, Metzger, Blass, Clark, and Boismard & Lamouille, all work with the notion of early local text-types. Because of this none of these ap proaches seems able to solve the problem. In contrast, a fresh approach to the history of the text in general and this problem in particular is developing in Munster. This approach describes the earliest history of the text in terms of ‘qualitative’ text-types and might therefore have the potential to solve the riddle of the Western text.

Effects of 5-5'-Diphenyl-2-thiohydantoin (DPTH) and Thyroxine on the Ultrastructure and Chemical Composition of Rat Liver

1971 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. 570-571
Author(s):  
E. A. Elfont ◽  
R. B. Tobin ◽  
D. G. Colton ◽  
M. A. Mehlman
Keyword(s):  
Chemical Composition ◽  
Rat Liver ◽  
Future Study ◽  
Mode Of Action ◽  
Liver Mitochondria ◽  
Rat Liver Mitochondria ◽  
Effective Inhibitor ◽  
Biochemical Effects ◽  
Glycerophosphate Dehydrogenase ◽  
Stimulation Of

Summary5,-5'-diphenyl-2-thiohydantoin (DPTH) is an effective inhibitor of thyroxine (T4) stimulation of α-glycerophosphate dehydrogenase in rat liver mitochondria. Because this finding indicated a possible tool for future study of the mode of action of thyroxine, the ultrastructural and biochemical effects of DPTH and/or thyroxine on rat liver mere investigated.Rats were fed either standard or DPTH (0.06%) diet for 30 days before T4 (250 ug/kg/day) was injected. Injection of T4 occurred daily for 10 days prior to sacrifice. After removal of the liver and kidneys, part of the tissue was frozen at -50°C for later biocheailcal analyses, while the rest was prefixed in buffered 3.5X glutaraldehyde (390 mOs) and post-fixed in buffered 1Z OsO4 (376 mOs). Tissues were embedded in Araldlte 502 and the sections examined in a Zeiss EM 9S.Hepatocytes from hyperthyroid rats (Fig. 2) demonstrated enlarged and more numerous mitochondria than those of controls (Fig. 1). Glycogen was almost totally absent from the cytoplasm of the T4-treated rats.

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