Synopses & Reviews
The publication in 1881 of The New Testament in the Original Greek, by the Cambridge scholars Brooke Foss Westcott (1825-1901) and Fenton John Anthony Hort (1828-1892), marked the culmination of twenty-eight years of work and revolutionised the theory and methods of New Testament textual criticism. The editors broke with tradition and reconstructed a critical text based on the third-century uncial manuscripts Codex Vaticanus and Codex Sinaiticus, paving the way for future editions. Westcott and Hort's claim to reconstruct the 'original text' may seem extravagant today; but according to Bruce Metzger theirs was the 'most noteworthy critical edition of the Greek Testament ever produced by British scholarship'. This second volume contains the reconstructed text. Readings that the editors thought were possible contenders for the original are printed in the margin; other readings, judged to be of value but appearing later, are given in the appendix.
Synopsis
This revolutionary nineteenth-century edition paved the way for modern textual criticism of the New Testament.
Synopsis
The New Testament in the Original Greek (1881), edited by Westcott and Hort, offers a reconstructed text based on the readings of the third-century uncial manuscripts Vaticanus and Sinaiticus, with a full critical apparatus. Westcott and Hort's revolutionary editorial principles broke the ground for New Testament textual criticism today.
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The New Testament in the Original Greek