[B-Greek] Textual Criticism Books
James Ernest
jdernest at alum.bu.edu
Sun Mar 21 01:42:51 EDT 2010
Chapters 12 and 13 of *Early Christianity and Its Sacred Literature* by Lee
McDonald and Stanley Porter should be helpful.
James Ernest
12. THE LANGUAGE, TEXT, AND TRANSMISSION OF THE NEW TESTAMENT 571
1. Introduction 571
2. The Language of the New Testament 572
Introduction 572 • The Greek of the New Testament 575 • The Language of
Jesus 577
3. The Text and Transmission of the New Testament 578
Basic Concepts of TextualCriticism 578 • History of the Modern Critical Text
580
Textual Types 581 • Internal Criteria 585 • Conclusion 587
4. Textual Transmission and Bible Translations 587
Ancient Writing and Its Materials 587 • Translations Ancient and Modern 590
Bibliography 592
Notes 594
13. THE ORIGINS OF THE CHRISTIAN BIBLE 600
1. Introduction: The Notions of Scripture and Canon 600
2. The Problem of Definition: Canon 1 and Canon 2 601
3. The Old Testament Canon 602
The Scriptures of Judaism and Early Christianity 602 • Josephus’s Scriptural
Canon 604
The Completion of the Old Testament Canon 606 • Conclusion 608
4. The New Testament Canon 611
Recognition of New Testament Writings as Scripture 611
Influences toward Canonization 611 • Criteria for Canonization 617
The Muratorian Fragment: A Fourth-Century CanonicalList? 618
5. Conclusions about the Old and New Testaments 621
Bibliography 623
Notes 625
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