advice with some texts on Manuscripts

Rodney J. Decker rdecker at bbc.edu
Tue Oct 31 15:45:40 EST 2000


At 12:17 PM 10/31/00 -0700, you wrote:
>I want to buy a book or two on Textual Criticism.  Of the following,
>which are the most useful--in depth and breadth?
>
>The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption, and Restoration
>(1992) by Bruce Metzger;
>The Text of the New Testament (1989) by Kurt Aland Barbara Alund;
>The New Linguistic and Exegetical Key to the Greek NT (1998) by Cleon
>Rogers, Jr.

Metzger and Aland are equally deep and broad. Yet they complement each 
other. You should really get them both. These are the standard, 
single-author  introductions. There are many other good, specialized 
treatments, and a few simplified intros (Black, Greenlee, Elliott/Moir, 
etc.), but the two you list are the standards. (Rogers has nothing to do 
with text. crit.)

>Any others you can suggest?  I already have A Textual Commentary on the
>Greek New Testament (1971) by Bruce Metzger
>
>Also, does anyone know if The Complete Koine Greek NT audio cassette by
>Spiros Zodhiates is read with the pronounciation of Koine or Modern Greek?
>I hope it is Koine pronounciation.

Modern



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