The Text of the New Testament. Its Transmission, Corruption, and Restoration. - METZGER, B.M.,

KORTE INHOUD

?Professor Metzger has already put his colleagues in his debt by a series of bibliographical publications, one devoted to the textual criticism of the New Testament. This is a field in which considerable advance has been made in the past thirty years and where an up-to-date handbook and guide to the beginner and to the non-specialist is lacking. In the work under review, the author seeks to expound ?the science and art? of this discipline (?). He has divided his treatment into three main sections, respectively dealing with the materials for textual criticism, the history of the New Testament textual criticism, and the application of criticism to the text of the New Testament, He appends a check-list of the Greek papyri of the New Testament, which notes of location and publication. The book (?) is intended to be for the beginner, but Metzger?s colleagues, even those who would claim to be specialists in his field, will find much to enrich their own learning in the bibliographical detail with which certain sect...
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1964Uitgever: Clarendon Press