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Manuscripts and the Text of the New Testament: An Introduction for English Readers is unavailable, but you can change that!

Does the famous story of the adulteress belong in the New Testament? Did Jesus offer a cup after the bread in Luke’s account of the Last Supper? Does Luke’s Gospel refer to the ascension or not? How does Marks’ Gospel begin, and how does it end? These and other questions arise because the Greek manuscripts on which we depend for our New Testament are not in agreement here, nor in many other...

of manuscripts, the original text has most probably lived on in some of these copies. The task of the textual critic is to find where the original reading lies at each and every point of divergence in the manuscripts, and, ideally, to try to explain how and why the variant or variants arose in the first place. Related to this is point 4 following. 4. The number of manuscripts and the antiquity of many of them place the NT textual critic in a position envied by scholars attempting to edit the Greek
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