
About this episode
We’ve been working our way through the various sources for our Greek New Testament. We’ve looked at the papyri and the uncials, but there is so much more to consider. In fact, the New Testament papyri and uncials combined make up less than 2% of our manuscripts. Today, we’ll consider the other 98% of manuscripts including minuscules, lectionaries, quotations in the church fathers, and ancient translations.
—— Books ——
- Constantine Tischendorf: The Life and Work of a 19th Century Bible Hunter by Stanley E. Porter
- An Introduction to the New Testament Manuscripts and their Texts by D. C. Parker
- The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption, and Restoration by Bruce M. Metzger and Bart D. Ehrman
- The Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts by Philip Wesley Comfort and David P. Barrett (2 volumes)
- Encountering the Manuscripts by Philip Comfort
—— Links ——
- See SBL’s publications of The New Testament in the Greek Fathers
- Visit The Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts and look at high resolution pictures of many manuscripts.
- Visit the Institute for New Testament Textual Research (INTF) to see the work they are doing to compare access and analyze New Testament manuscripts
- Check out all the lectures in How We Got the Bible
- See what other classes are available here or on the Restitutio Classes podcast (subscribe in Apple, Spotify, RSS feed)
- If you’d like to support Restitutio, you can donate here.
- Intro music: Good Vibes by MBB Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) Free Download / Stream: Music promoted by Audio Library
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