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Studies in the Theory and Method of New Testament Textual Criticism is unavailable, but you can change that!

The seventeen studies in this volume provide a comprehensive presentation and assessment of past and current methods applied to the New Testament text. Both acknowledged specialists in historical and methodological studies of textual criticism, coauthors Epp and Fee offer an introductory survey of the whole field of New Testament textual criticism, followed by sections of essays on the following...

and of some of the editors in the GCS.2 It is not surprising, therefore, in light of such difficulties, that patristic citations have assumed a supportive role, and are generally relegated to a place of tertiary importance, in the quest for the original NT text. However, there has been an occasional demurrer. In 1903 F. C. Conybeare confidently predicted that “scores of old readings will be restored in the text of the New Testament” from further careful editing of the Greek and Latin Fathers (1902:
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