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  • 11 - THE NEW TESTAMENT TEXT

  • from IV - THE NEW TESTAMENT
  • Edited by P. R. Ackroyd, C. F. Evans
  • Book:
    The Cambridge History of the Bible
    Published online:
    28 March 2008
    Print publication:
    01 April 1970, pp 308-377

  • Summary

    In the field of New Testament textual criticism, a great change of approach and method has taken place in the course of the present century. The method owed much to the work of the great nineteenth century philologist Karl Lachmann, who worked in the fields of the manuscript tradition of Latin classical texts, the New Testament and medieval German poetry. One of the greatest exponents of the study of documents a generation after Westcott and Hort was Kirsopp Lake. He wrote some words which express the ideal for the textual critic working on this aspect of the field. The majority of manuscripts of the Greek New Testament are of Byzantine production, and most of these post-date the Iconoclastic controversy and the invention of minuscule. The Byzantine text has many readings which appear conflate, and many evident rationalisations of cruces.