Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener

A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament

For the Use of Biblical Students

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Produktbeschreibung

A pioneering work of Victorian scholarship, Scrivener's 1861 book introduces the then-emerging discipline of New Testament textual criticism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 536
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. November 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 748g
• ISBN-13: 9781108007467
• ISBN-10: 1108007465
• Artikelnr.: 28182893

Autorenporträt

Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener (1813-1891) was a New Testament textual critic and a member of the English New Testament Revision Committee which produced the Revised Version of the Bible. He was prebendary of Exeter, and vicar of Hendon.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Preliminary considerations
2. On the Greek manuscripts of the New Testament
3. On the ancient versions of the New Testament in various languages
4. On the citations from the Greek New Testament made by early ecclesiastical writers
5. On the early printed and later critical editions of the Greek New Testament
6. On the laws of internal evidence, and the limits of their legitimate use
7. On the history of the text, including a discussion of recent views of comparative criticism
8. On the peculiar character and grammatical form of the dialect of the New Testament
9. Application of the foregoing materials and principles to the criticism of select passages of the N. T.
Indexes.