New Testament Textual Criticism:The Application of Thoroughgoing Principles

J.K. Elliott has been identified as one of the Main exponents of so-called thoroughgoing textual criticism. In this collection of fifty seven of his essays from the past forty years are articles on methodology as well as on praxis (with a selection of important textual variants, including some of especial interest for exegesis). Also included are several essays on textual criticism which emphasise its relevance for the discussion of the synoptic problem and there are also a number of assessments of printed editions of the Greek New Testament. A bibliography of Elliott's writings is appended.

Those interested in the New Testament text and in Greek manuscripts as well as scholars working on the history of exegesis or the Greek language which thoroughgoing criticism encourages will find this collection of value. The selection will enable readers to have an overview of Elliott's contribution to the discipline.

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Preliminary Material

Introduction

Chapter One. The New Testament Text In The Second Century: A Challenge For The Twenty-First Century

Chapter Two. The Nature Of The Evidence Available For Reconstructuring The Text Of The New Testament In The Second Century

Chapter Three. Thoroughgoing Eclecticism

Chapter Four. Singular Readings In The Gospel Text Of Papyrus 45

Chapter Five. T.C. Skeat On The Dating And Origin Of Codex Vaticanus

Chapter Six. Codex Bezae And The Earliest Greek Papyri

The Papyri

Matthew

Mark

Luke

John

Acts

Postscriptum

Chapter Seven. A Greek-Coptic (Sahidic) Fragment Of Titus-Philemon (0205)

Chapter Eight. The Greek Manuscript Heritage Of The Book Of Acts

Chapter Nine. Manuscripts Of The Book Of Revelation Collated by H.C. Hoskier

Chapter Ten. The Distinctiveness Of The Greek Manuscripts Of The Book Of Revelation

Chapter Eleven. Recent Oxyrhynchus Papyri

Chapter Twelve. The Influence Of G.D. Kilpatrick

Chapter Thirteen. Specific Variants

Chapter Fourteen. Mark 1:1–3 — A Later Addition To The Gospel?

Chapter Fifteen. The Position Of The Verb In Mark With Special Reference To Mark 13

Chapter Sixteen. The Last Twelve Verses Of Mark: Original Or Not?

Chapter Seventeen. The Text Of Acts In The Light Of Two Recent Studies

Chapter Eighteen. An Eclectic Study Of The Book Of Acts

Chapter Nineteen. The Language And Style Of The Concluding Doxology To The Epistle To The Romans

Chapter Twenty. The Divine Names In The Corinthian Letters

Chapter Twenty-One

Chapter Twenty-Two. The Parable Of The Two Sons: Text And Exegesis

Chapter Twenty-Three. Paul’s Teaching On Marriage In I Corinthians: Some Problems Considered

Chapter Twenty-Four. An Examination Of The Text And Apparatus Of Three Recent Greek Synopses

Chapter Twenty-Five. Textual Criticism, Assimilation And The Synoptic Gospels

Chapter Twenty-Six. Printed Editions Of Greek Synopses And Their Influence On The Synoptic Problem

Chapter Twenty-Seven. Resolving The Synoptic Problem Using The Text Of Printed Greek Synopses

Chapter Twenty-Eight. The Editio Critica Maior

Chapter Twenty-Nine. The United Bible Societies’ Fourth Revised Edition And Nestle-Aland 27

Chapter Thirty. The International Greek New Testament Project’s Volumes On The Gospel Of Luke

Chapter Thirty-One. The Marc Multilingue Project

Chapter Thirty-Two. Manuscripts, The Codex And The Canon

Publications by J.K. Elliott

Index

Biographical Note

J.K. Elliott holds doctorates from the University of Oxford (DPhil) and the University of Wales (DD) and has recently retired as Professor of New Testament Textual Criticism at the University of Leeds. He has specialised in New Testament textual criticism and in early non-canonical Christian literature.

Review Quotes

"indispensable service to the discipline of NT textual criticism. [. ] a veritable goldmine of information. The work is copiously detailed and exhaustive in its scrutiny, breadth and precision. Seasoned practitioners, text-critical junkies, and the next generation of budding textual critics will uncover a treasure trove of material and seasoned judgments to pore over for years to come. The collection is worth its weight in gold." – Juan Hernández Jr, Bethel University, in: The Expository Times 125/8
". useful and provocative collection. A debt of gratitude is owed to Elliott (and to Brill) for having brought together these essays in a single, easily consulted volume." – Brent Nongbri, in: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism [Full review]
"Unlike many volumes of collected papers, this is not a random assemblage of a scholar's work. Careful thought and planning have gone into the arrangement of material, and this results in a volume that leads readers on a journey through a complex and rapidly developing discipline. [. ] Elliott has taken the opportunity [. ] to bring several of the articles up-to-date by the addition of a post-scriptum. The result is that the chapters interact with the latest research relating to the subject matter they cover. However, above all this volume offers the vintage and superlative scholarship of Keith Elliott on textual criticism in an easily accessible format, with many supplementary features such as a comprehensive bibliography and indices [. ]. This is an exceptionally fine volume, which will repay careful an repeated study." – Paul Foster, in: Novum Testamentum 54 (2012)