New Testament Textual Criticism:The Application of Thoroughgoing Principles

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“Textual Criticism” in The Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels (ed. Joel B. Green, Jeannine K. Brown, and Nicholas Perrin; Downers Grove, Ill.: IVP Academic, 2013), 959-63.

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A brief introduction and a short digression (on the questions of "is the 'original text' an authoritative text?" and "is the 'original text' a privileged goal?") set up a survey of the meaning of the phrase "original text' in late 19th and 20th-century usage. A description and assessment of several contemporary proposals to redefine the goal(s) of NT (including Epp, Wachtel & Parker on the "initial text", Ellingworth, Trobisch, Swanson, Holmes, Parker, and [for the OT] Hendel) is followed by a discussion of some collateral issues (how early a text can TC recover; is it possible to recover an authorial text; and are the gospels the sort of texts that have originals). A survey of the philosophical and epistemological commitments that shape the practice of TC concludes the essay. Publication info: in The Text of the New Testament in Contemporary Research: Essays on the Status Quaestionis, 2nd ed. (ed. by Bart D. Ehrman and Michael W. Holmes; NTTSD, 46; Brill, 2013 [November 2012] 637-688.

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