Recent Developments in Textual Criticism

Series: Studies in Theology and Religion (STAR) vol. 8

From 4 to 6 January 2001, a three-day international conference on textual criticism took place in Münster. This conference was remarkable for its multi-disciplinary set-up. The speakers included experts in the field of New Testament textual criticism as well as researchers who specialise in preparing critical editions of documents from early-Jewish and rabbinic literature.
Text-critical problems concerning the study of early-Christian literature other than the New Testament were also on the conference programme.

This book contains most of the papers presented during the conference, but it is not simply a volume containing conference proceedings. The papers have often been thoroughly revised and two articles were added afterwards at the invitation of the editors. There is also a substantial inroduction by the editors.
Contributors include Barbara Aland, James Keith Elliott, and Folkert Siegert.


From the contents

Part 1 Introduction

Part 2 New Testament and other early Christian Literature

1 Der textkritische und textgeschichtliche Nutzen früher Papyri, demonstriert am Johannesevangelium
2 Was verändert sich in der Textkritik durch die Beachtung genealogischer Kohärenz?
3 The Nature of "Western" Readings in Acts: Test-cases
4 Zur Bedeutung der koptischen Übersetzungen für Textkritik und Verständnis des Neuen Testaments
5 Theodorus Beza and New Testament Conjectural Emendation
6 The Editio Critica Maior: One Reader's Reactions
7 Textkritik in frühchristlicher Literatur ausserhalb des Neuen Testaments: Barn 1,6 als Beispiel

Part 3 Jewish Literature

1 Erfahrungen mit der Münsteraner Josephus-Ausgabe: Ein Werkstattbericht mit Seitenblicken auf griechische Bibelsausgaben
2 Zur Edition apokrypher Texte: Am Beispiel des griechischen Lebens Adams und Evas
3 Textual Criticism of Late Rabbinic Midrshim: The Example of Aggadat Bereshit