Books in the Arbeiten zur Neutestamentlichen Textforschung series

This monograph explores the history of the Coptic tradition of John's gospel, considering when these ancient Egyptian witnesses are profitable for determining the earliest readings of their Greek source text. The standard critical edition of the Greek New Testament cites the Coptic versions no fewer than 1,000 times in John's gospel. For these citations, that edition references six dialectally distinct Coptic translations: the Achmimic, Bohairic, Lycopolitan (Subachmimic), Middle Egyptian Fayumic, Proto-Bohairic, and Sahidic versions. In addition to examining these, this project considers newly published texts from the Fayumic and Middle Egyptian traditions. Apart from a pivotal article on Coptic and New Testament textual criticism by Gerd Mink in 1972, Coptological research has progressed with only limited contact with Greek textual criticism. The discovery of various apocryphal Christian texts in Coptic translations has further diverted attention from Greek textual criticism. This project contributes to this subject area by applying recent advances in Coptology, and exploring the various facets of the Coptic translations. In particular, the monograph investigates (1) translation technique, (2) Greek-Coptic linguistic differences, (3) the reliability of the Coptic manuscript tradition, (4) the relationships between the Coptic versions, and (5) relevant contributions from the scholarly community. John's gospel is extant in more Coptic dialectal versions than any other biblical text. As a result, the gospel offers unique insight into the nature of the ancient Egyptian Christian communities.

The Gothic version of the New Testament is the oldest extant writing in a Germanic language and one of the earliest translations from the Greek. This volume offers a re-examination of fundamental questions concerning the historical and cultural context in which the version was prepared, the codicology of the manuscripts, and the value of the Gothic text for the reconstruction of the underlying Greek, together with a history of text-critical research and a new evaluation of the significance of the Gothic text in the light of current New Testament textual criticism.

In der Reihe Arbeiten zur Neutestamentlichen Textforschung (ANTF) publiziert das Institut für Neutestamentliche Textforschung (Münster) seit 1963 grundlegende Untersuchungen und Studien zur Textkritik und Textgeschichte des griechischen Neuen Testaments. Die Reihe versteht sich als Forschungs- und Diskussionsforum und stellt Editionen und Instrumente zur Erforschung und Auswertung der neutestamentlichen Primärüberlieferung und der frühen Übersetzungen bereit.

Als 1987 die Bände erschienen, die der Untersuchung von Text und Textwert der Katholischen Briefe gewidmet waren, handelte es sich dabei um ein "Pilotprojekt", wie man heute zu sagen pflegt. Mit Rücksicht darauf wurde das gesamte zur Verfügung stehende Material ausgebreitet, gleich ob es sich um Handschriften mit wertvollem alten Text oder um solche mit dem "Mehrheitstext" des byzantinischen Reiches handelte, der nun zwar keineswegs so monolithisch ist, wie mancher meint, sondern zahlreiche interne Variationen bietet, aber dennoch für das Ziel der Gewinnung des ursprünglichen Textes des Neuen Testaments und die Feststellung seiner frühen Geschichte von sekundärer Bedeutung ist.

This textual study of the Gospel of John in seventeen Greek manuscripts offers a fresh investigation into the textual group known as Family 1. Since Kirsopp Lake's 1902 study, Codex 1 of the Gospels and its Allies, Family 1 has been considered an important textual witness by all major critical editions of the the New Testament; however, with the exception of a recent study of Matthew (Amy Anderson, The Textual Tradition of the Gospels: Family 1 in Matthew), little further research has been conducted into the family's text. By analysis of a full collation of John, this study examines manuscripts: Gregory-Aland 1, 22, 118, 131, 205abs, 205, 209, 565, 872, 884, 1192, 1210, 1278, 1582, 2193, 2372, and 2713. The study has confirmed the place of codices 1 and 1582 as core members of Family 1, but has demonstrated the existence of a new core subgroup, represented by codices 565, 884 and 2193, that rivals the textual witness of 1 and 1582. The discovery of this subgroup has broadened the textual contours of Family 1, leading to many new readings, both text and marginal, that should be considered Family 1 readings. The reconstructed Family 1 text with critical apparatus is based on the witness of this wider textual group and is offered as a replacement to Lake's 1902 text of John.

Der vorliegende Band versammelt Beiträge, die in den Jahren 2007-2009 auf Workshops und internationalen Tagungen des Instituts für Septuaginta- und biblische Textforschung der Kirchlichen Hochschule/Protestant University Wuppertal-Bethel präsentiert wurden. Die Texte nehmen zum einen das Verhältnis der unterschiedlichen Textformen des griechischen Alten Testamentes untereinander, zum anderen die Frage der Zitation alttestamentlicher Texte im Neuen Testament in ihren thematischen Fokus. Untersucht werden die Bedeutung des antiochenischen/lukianischen Textes und der kaige-Rezension für die Rekonstruktion der ältesten griechischen Textform; die Frage, inwieweit diese Rezensionen für die atl. Zitate im NT von Bedeutung sind; das Phänomen der Auszeichnung von atl. Zitaten in Manuskripten des NT durch Diplé sowie die Frage, welche Textvorlage den Zitaten in den verschiedenen ntl. Büchern zugrunde liegt. Weitere Aufsätze widmen sich den modernen Editionsmöglichkeiten biblischer Texte. Der Text der Johannes-Apokalypse und die Rückfrage nach der Rezeption des Alten Testaments durch den Seher bilden einen abschließenden Schwerpunkt, der aufzeigt, dass die biblische Textforschung noch zahlreiche spannende Fragen- und Antworten- bereithält.

Edition und textkritische Untersuchung von 13 Papyri und einer Majuskel, wobei die Schreibgenauigkeit der Kopisten (Überlieferungsweise) und die Textqualität der Vorlagen bzw. Vorlagenketten zueinander in Beziehung gesetzt werden. Das ermöglicht auch eine relativ genaue Auswertung kleinerer Fragmente. Im Ergebnis zeigt sich, dass die frühen Papyri trotz zahlreicher Flüchtigkeitsfehler einen Text bewahren, der dem "Urtext" nahe steht.

These Syrian translations of the New Testament are presented synoptically and chronologically. A reconstruction of the Greek "Vorlage" of the Harclean version, with collations of the related Greek manuscripts is also provided.

This book is concerned with the Arabic versions of the Gospels. It is an attempt to examine a substantial number of Arabic manuscripts which contain the continuous text of the canonical Gospels copied between the eighth and the nineteenth centuries and found in twenty-one different library collections in Europe and the Orient.Following the introduction, Chapter Two presents the state of research from the middle of the nineteenth century to the present time. Chapter Three introduces and reflects on the two hundred plus manuscripts examined in this work. Chapters Four to Eight concentrate on grouping these manuscripts into twenty-four families and examining their Vorlagen (Greek, Syriac, Coptic and Latin). In order to examine the relationship between the families, phylogenetic software is used. Consequently, the manuscripts are grouped into seven different mega clusters or tribes. Finally the date of the first translation of the Gospels into Arabic is addressed and (a) provisional date(s) suggested based on the textual and linguistic analyses of the manuscripts.The conclusion in Chapter Ten gives the overall contribution made by this thesis and also future avenues for the study of the Arabic versions of the Gospels.

Manuscripts of the New Testament frequently contain, in addition to the text, supplementary information such as excerpts from the Fathers, chapter lists, quotation lists, introductions to sections, for example, the Pauline letters, and to individual books. The Euthalian apparatus"e; is the name given to one such collection of helps to the reader. Unfortunately, the relationship of the various parts, the identity of the author, the time of the writing, and the provenance remain uncertain. This work collects, summarizes, and analyzes the sometimes disparate published scholarship on the apparatus through 1970. The bibliography updates the original bibliography through 2007 and includes newly identified, earlier bibliographic references.