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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...

For more than two centuries, New Testament scholars have spoken about the Alexandrian, Western, Byzantine (or Eastern or Syrian), and sometimes Caesarean texts. An early pioneer, J. A. Bengel (1687–1752), took on the task of sorting out the wealth of source materials in order to reconstruct the earliest text of the New Testament. He divided the textual witnesses into groups that he called “nations” and “families.” J. S. Semler (1725–1791) and J. J. Griesbach (1745–1812) refined Bengel’s scheme by
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