Criticism Textual

Black, David Alan ed. Rethinking New Testament Textual Criticism.
Grand Rapids,
Mich.: Baker, 2002.
*Ehrman, Bart D., Michael W. Holmes, and Bruce M. Metzger, eds. The Text of the
New Testament in Contemporary Research. Essays on the Status Quaestionis. SD 46.
Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1995. [An excellent overview of the field; a second
edition will come out in 2012, which is a must read.]
Ehrman, Bart D. The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture. The Effect of Early

Christological Controversies on the Text of the New Testament. 2d ed. New York:
Oxford University Press, 2011. [Important and controversial.]
*Epp, Eldon J., and Gordon D. Fee. Studies in the Theory and Method of New
Testament Textual Criticism. SD 45. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1993.
Hull, Robert F. The Story of the New Testament Text: Movers, Materials, Motives,
Methods, and Models. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2010.
Metzger, Bruce M. and Ehrman, Bart D. The Text of the New Testament. Its
Transmission, Corruption, and Restoration. 4rd ed. New York/Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2005.
[The third edition is better in many respects; see review by D. C.
Parker in JTS.]
*Parker, D. C. An Introduction to the New Testament Manuscripts and Their Texts.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. [This is a rather technical book, part
of which could fit in the two categories below; it is very useful for more advanced
readers, e.g., PhD students who want to know the resources for manuscript work;
note that it is primarily focused on New Testament manuscripts, as the title says,
and less on the practice of New Testament textual criticism]
Parker, D. C. The Living Text of the Gospels. Cambridge: Cambridge University

Press, 1997.
Westcott, B. F., and F. J. A. Hort. Introduction to the New Testament in the

Original Greek. Reprinted from the edition by Harper & Brothers, New York, 1882.
Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson, 1988. [A classic groundbreaking work laying the
foundation for textual criticism in the following century and beyond.]
[Note that these introductions cover several topics which are treated in the
specialized reading list below. For example, several of Fee's essays in Studies in the
Theory and Method relate to the use of patristic citations.]
Current trends, views and debates
Elliott, J. K. “Recent Trends in the Textual Criticism of the New Testament: A New
Millennium, a New Beginning?” Babelao 1 (2012): 117–36.
Houghton, H.A.G. “Recent Developments in New Testament Textual Criticism." Early

Christianity 2.2 (2011): 245–268. [An excellent and up-to-date overview.]
Holmes, Michael W. "What Text is Being Edited? The Editing of the New Testament."
Pages 91-122 in Editing the Bible: Assessing the Task Past and Present. Edited by
John S. Kloppenborg and Judith H. Newman. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature,
2012.
Hurtado, L. W. “Beyond the Interlude? Developments and Directions in New

Testament Textual Criticism.” Pages 26-48 in Studies in the Early Text of the
Gospels and Acts the Papers of the First Birmingham Colloquium on the Textual
Criticism of the New Testament, edited by David G. K. Taylor. Text-Critical Studies
1. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 1999.
Stewart, Robert B. ed. The Reliability of the New Testament: Bart Ehrman and
Daniel B. Wallace in Dialogue. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2011.
*Wachtel, Klaus and Michael W. Holmes, eds. The Textual History of the Greek New
Testament: Changing Views in Contemporary Research. Text-Critical Studies 9.
Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2011.
Wasserman, Tommy. “The Implications of Textual Criticism for Understanding the

’Original Text’.” Pages 77-96 in Mark and Matthew I: Comparative Readings:
Understanding the Earliest Gospels in their First-Century Settings. Edited by E.-M.
Becker and A. Runesson. WUNT 271. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2011.
Manuscripts and their world (books, scribes and readers)
Gamble, Harry Y. Books and Readers in the Early Church: A History of Early
Christian Texts.
New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1995.
Haines-Eitzen, Kim. Guardians of Letters: Literacy, Power, and the Transmitters of

Early Christian Literature. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
*Hurtado, Larry. W., The Earliest Christian Artifacts: Manuscripts and Christian
Origins. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2006.
Johnson William A. "Toward a Sociology of Reading in Classical Antiquity." In AJP 121

(2000): 593-627.
Kraus, Thomas J., and Tobias Nicklas, eds. New Testament Manuscripts: Their Texts
and Their
World. Texts and Editions for New Testament Study 1. Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2006.
Roberts, Colin H. and T. C. Skeat, The Birth of the Codex. London: Oxford University
Press, 1983.
Schmid, Ulrich, "Scribes and Variants – Sociology and Typology." Pages 1-23 in
Textual Variation: Theological and Social Tendencies? Papers from the Fifth
Birmingham Colloquium on the Textual Criticism of the New Testament. Edited by
H. A. G. Houghton and D. C. Parker. Texts and Studies. Third Series. Vol. 6.
Piscataway: Gorgias Press, 2008.
Working with manuscripts
Finegan, J., Encountering New Testament Manuscripts: A Working Introduction to

Textual Criticism (London: SPCK, 1975).
*Metzger, Bruce M. Manuscripts of the Greek Bible: An Introduction to Greek

Palaeography (New York–Oxford: Oxford Univerity Press, 1991 corrected edition;
1981).

Current trends in dating NT papyri
Barker, Don. "The Dating of New Testament Papyri." New Testament Studies 57
(2011): 571-582.
Nongbri, Brent. "Grenfell and Hunt on the Dates of Early Christian Codices: Setting
the Record Straight." Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 48 (2011):
149-162.
Nongbri, Brent. "The Use and Abuse of P52: Papyrological Pitfalls in Dating of the
Fourth Gospel."Harvard Theological Review 98 (2005): 23-48.
Scribal habits
Hernandez, Juan Jr., Scribal Habits and Theological Influences in the Apocalypse:
The Singular Readings of Sinaiticus, Alexandrinus, and Ephraemi. WUNT II 218.
Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2006.
Jongkind, Dirk. Scribal Habits of Codex Sinaiticus. Texts and Studies Third Series 5.
Piscataway: Gorgias Press, 2007.
*Royse, James R. Scribal Habits in Early Greek New Testament Papyri. New
Testament Tools and Studies 36. Leiden: Brill, 2008.

The Earliest Text
*Hill, Charles E. and Michael J. Kruger, eds. The Early Text of the New Testament
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012).
Petersen, William, ed. Gospel Traditions in the Second Century. Notre Dame:
University of Notre Dame Press, 1989.
Patristic citations
Ehrman, Bart D. “The Use and Significance of Patristic Evidence for NT Textual
Criticism.” Pages 118-35 in New Testament Textual Criticism, Exegesis, and Early
Church History. A Discussion of
Methods. Edited by Barbara Aland and Joël Delobel. CBET 7, Kampen [The
Netherlands]: Kok Pharos, 1994.
Fee, G. D. [See Epp and Fee, Studies, 1993 for several of Fee's works on patristic
citations]
Osburn, Carroll D. "Methodology in Identifying Patristic Citations in NT Textual

Criticism." In
Novum Testamentum 47.4 (2005): 313-343.
Early versions
Metzger, Bruce M. The Early Versions of the New Testament. Their Origin,
Transmission And Limitations. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1977.
Practice of NT textual criticism
*Metzger, Bruce M., A Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament. 2d ed.

Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 1994. [This reference work and companion
volume to the UBSGNT reflects the dominant practice of textual criticism (reasoned
eclecticism) which takes into account external and internal evidence in passages
where there is textual variation.]

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Black, David Alan ed. Rethinking New Testament Textual Criticism.

Ehrman, Bart D. The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture. The Effect of Early

*Parker, D. C. An Introduction to the New Testament Manuscripts and Their Texts.

Parker, D. C. The Living Text of the Gospels. Cambridge: Cambridge University

Westcott, B. F., and F. J. A. Hort. Introduction to the New Testament in the

Houghton, H.A.G. “Recent Developments in New Testament Textual Criticism." Early

Hurtado, L. W. “Beyond the Interlude? Developments and Directions in New

Wasserman, Tommy. “The Implications of Textual Criticism for Understanding the

Manuscripts and their world (books, scribes and readers)

Haines-Eitzen, Kim. Guardians of Letters: Literacy, Power, and the Transmitters of

Johnson William A. "Toward a Sociology of Reading in Classical Antiquity." In AJP 121

Working with manuscripts

Finegan, J., Encountering New Testament Manuscripts: A Working Introduction to

*Metzger, Bruce M. Manuscripts of the Greek Bible: An Introduction to Greek

Osburn, Carroll D. "Methodology in Identifying Patristic Citations in NT Textual

Practice of NT textual criticism

*Metzger, Bruce M., A Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament. 2d ed.

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