The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption, and Restoration. By Bruce M. Metzger and Bart D. Ehrman. Fourth Edition. Pp. xvi + 366. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. isbn 0 19 516667 1, 0 19 516122 X (pb.). n.p.
David Parker
The fourth edition of this classic handbook has appeared 41 years after the first. There cannot be many academics in English-speaking world currently teaching Theology and Religious Studies (and other textual criticism courses as well) who did not find it on their reading list when they were a student, is highly likely that was introduction which turn recommended to classes. A second 1968 added dozen pages supplementary notes, third (1992) contained addition 38-page appendix advances between 1964 1990. new reworking whole. In words preface, ‘Room for important bibliographical items, along with expanded information making copying texts antiquity history transmission text New Testament, been gained by elimination materials seemed peripheral interest present-day readers’ (p. xiii).
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