The New Testament Documents: Their Origin and Early History

Excerpt from The New Testament Documents Their Origin and Early History
The following Lectures were delivered in Edinburgh on the Croall Foundation in the end of the year 1911. And the time that has since elapsed has given me the opportunity of revising them carefully, and of adding a number of notes, which may prove useful to those who desire to carry the study further.
In attempting to cover so wide a field in the course of six lectures, I have naturally been obliged to indicate, rather than to discuss, many of the problems that emerge, while not a few points to which I would gladly have drawn attention have been omitted altogether. I trust, however, that enough has been said to show how fascinating are the questions suggested by the making of our New Testament, and, above all, how impossible it is fully to understand the varied documents of which it is composed, unless they are studied in connexion with their origin and early history. The very outward form of the autographs, on which recent discoveries have thrown so much welcome light, has its value from this point of view.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

George Milligan (1860-1934) was a New Testament scholar and linguist. He was the co-author, with James Hope Moulton, of The Vocabulary of the Greek Testament. In addition, his many publications include The Theology of the Epistle to the Hebrews, Here and There among the Papyri, Selections from the Greek Papyri, and The New Testament Documents.