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The Text of the New Testament in Contemporary Research: Essays on the Status Quaestionis is unavailable, but you can change that!

Compiled in honor of Bruce M. Metzger, the most highly respected American textual critic in the history of the discipline, this volume comprises twenty-two full-length essays on every major issue relating to New Testament textual criticism, each written by an internationally recognized scholar in the field. The Text of the New Testament in Contemporary Research focuses on important advances made...

sheer bulk of MS support for a reading. That the weight of MSS favors the Majority text-type is only to be expected: the later MSS, not surprisingly, have survived in greater numbers than earlier MSS, and it is these numerous later MSS that generally have a text which conforms to the ecclesiastical text of the Byzantine church. Just as the number of MSS is not a relevant argument for thoroughgoing eclectic criticism, neither is the age of a MS of particular significance. Unless one can be sure how
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