2. THE METHOD TODAY
• Reasoned Eclecticism
–Uses both external (MS readings) and
internal (author/scribe tendencies)
evidences; text-types developed
• Radical/Thorough-Going Eclecticism
– Only internal; avoids “cult of the best MSS”
• Priority Groups (Byzantine, etc.)
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3. INTERNAL METHOD
TODAY
• Transcriptional evidence – tendency of the
scribe; what gives an explanation for the
readings?
– Shortest readings
– Hardest readings
– Reading different from the parallels
– Reading that best explains the origin of the others.
• Intrinsic evidence – tendencies of writings of
that writer and literary considerations.
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4. WHAT’S HAPPENING
NOW?
• International Greek New Testament
Project.
• Developments in publishing areasince
UBS 3rd (1975) and N-A 26th (1979)
changed things.
• Electronic Resources. Digital and print
(Sinaiticus in high res)
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5. CENTERS OF STUDY:
MUENSTER
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6. CENTERS OF STUDY:
MUENSTER
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7. CENTERS OF STUDY:
MUENSTER
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8. CENTERS OF STUDY:
MUENSTER
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9. CENTERS OF STUDY:
MUENSTER
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10. CENTERS OF STUDY:
MUENSTER
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11. CENTERS OF STUDY:
MUENSTER
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12. CENTERS OF STUDY:
MUENSTER
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13. CENTERS OF STUDY:
MUENSTER
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14. CENTERS OF STUDY:
ABMC
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15. CENTERS OF STUDY:
ABMC
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16. CENTERS OF STUDY:
IGNTP
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17. CENTERS OF STUDY:
HCNTTS
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18. CENTERS OF STUDY:
CSNTM
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19. CENTERS OF STUDY:
CSNTM
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20. CENTERS OF STUDY:
CSNTM
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21. BRITISH LIBRARY
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22. RESOURCES: ETC
BLOG
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24. SAMPLE OF METHOD
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25. JOYS OF THE FIELD
• We get to ask and strive to answer “What is the
text?”
• We get to fight on the front lines in regard to the
nature and authority of Scripture.
• We get to read the earliest commentary on the
text.
• We get to see that sometimes there are multiple
understandings that are mutually legitimate.
• We are blessed to gain a better understanding of
the history of the Bible.
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