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A New Approach to Textual Criticism: An Introduction to the Coherence-Based Genealogical Method is unavailable, but you can change that!

With the publication of the widely used twenty-eighth edition of Nestle-Aland’s Novum Testamentum Graece and the fifth edition of the United Bible Society’s Greek New Testament, a computer-assisted method known as the Coherence-Based Genealogical Method (CBGM) was used for the first time to determine the most valuable witnesses and establish the initial text. This book offers the first...

subsequent chapters we will explain the different types of coherence and how they are important. For now, it is enough to note that one way to conceive of the CBGM is as a set of tools for exploring this new evidence. On the other hand, the CBGM is much more than just a set of online tools, important as those are. As the name implies, it is also a new method for relating manuscript texts to each other. What is new is not that the CBGM relates texts; what is new is how it relates them. The new principle
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