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The New Testament in the Original Greek
Paperback / softback
Main Details
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The New Testament in the Original Greek
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| Authors and Contributors |
Edited by Brooke Foss Westcott
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Edited by Fenton John Anthony Hort
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| Series | Cambridge Library Collection - Biblical Studies |
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| Series part Volume No. |
Volume 1
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| Physical Properties |
| Format:Paperback / softback | | Pages:550 | | Dimensions(mm): Height 216,Width 140 |
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| Category/Genre | Biblical studies |
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| ISBN/Barcode |
9781108007085
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| Classifications | Dewey:225 |
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| Audience | | Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly | |
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| Illustrations |
2 Tables, black and white
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Publishing Details |
| Publisher |
Cambridge University Press
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| Imprint |
Cambridge University Press
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| Publication Date |
25 February 2010 |
| Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
The publication in 1881 of The New Testament in the Original Greek, by the Cambridge scholars Brooke Foss Westcott (1825-1901) and Fenton John Anthony Hort (1828-1892), marked the culmination of twenty-eight years of work and an innovation in the theory and methods of New Testament textual criticism. This first of two volumes contains a detailed discussion of the theories and methods behind the reconstructed text, sets out the editors' theory of text-types, and justifies their choice to break with the dominant use of the Textus Receptus. It argues for the Neutral Text, represented by the uncials Codex Vaticanus and Codex Sinaiticus, as being the earliest and least corrupt form. Westcott and Hort's claim to reconstruct the 'original text' may seem extravagant today but according to Bruce Metzger theirs was the 'most noteworthy critical edition of the Greek Testament ever produced by British scholarship'.
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