Textual Criticism and the New Testament Text: Theory, Practice, and Editorial Technique

The fruit of more than three decades of research

This collection of fourteen essays by Eberhard W. Güting covers important aspects of editorial science with a particular focus on New Testament textual criticism. Essays cover textual emendation, text-critical procedures, literary criticism, history of scholarship, advantages and disadvantages of online manuscripts, and text-critical studies of words and phrases. The addition of a substantial introduction to text criticism makes this a valuable resource for students and teachers.

Features

• Essays concerned with establishing the original text of New Testament writings
• Nine essays published in English for the first tim
• Two previously unpublished essays

Eberhard W. Güting is an author and editor specializing in textual criticism of the New Testament. He is coeditor of Das Neue Testament auf Papyrus, II: Die paulinischen Briefe (1989) and coauthor of Asyndeton in Paul: A Text Critical and Statistical Enquiry into Pauline Style (1998).