An Introduction to the New Testament Manuscripts and their Texts

Customer Reviews

Useful overview for postgraduates - By: Helen Hancox, 08 Nov 2008
Although entitled 'an introduction' this book appears to be aimed more at the postgraduate Biblical Studies student. It includes an overview of different manuscripts, the various classification systems & how to use them, other witnesses, textual criticism, how to use critical editions & concludes with a brief summary of the various manuscript witnesses for Revelation, the Pauline corpus, Acts & the Catholic epistles & the Gospels.

The author's writing style is clear & scholarly with a vast repository of bibliographic notes which should provide the reader with most of the information they need to find more on a particular subject. The author requires the reader to read Greek, Latin & German to make the most of this book (most citations in those languages are untranslated) & there are particularly large sections of Greek in the final section.

This book served to highlight the importance & complexity of the textual critic's work, of the vast array of different manuscripts & the difficulties in classifying them, of the ways in which textual criticism can influence theology & exegesis & the many areas where further work is required, particularly with regard to postdoctoral research. This was an interesting & helpful book but not for the beginner in textual criticism.

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