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This edition is based on the widely known “Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament” of Bruce M. Metzger. It was especially designed for translators who have not received formal training in textual criticism. It enables them—and other people interested in the initial text of the Greek New Testament—to discover more easily the reasons that certain variant readings in the NT are more likely to...

INTRODUCTION: THE PRACTICE OF NEW TESTAMENT TEXTUAL CRITICISM I. Definition and Purpose of Textual Criticism Textual criticism of the NT is the study of biblical texts in ancient manuscripts in order to determine as closely as possible the exact text of the original writings (called “autographs”) before copyists made changes and errors as they copied them. As Holmes has noted, this task has three major aspects:1 (1) gathering and organizing the evidence; (2) developing a methodology by which to
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