The Text of the Gospels

A blog by James Snapp Jr. about New Testament textual criticism, especially involving variants in the Gospels.

Sunday, January 22, 2017

John 7:53-8:11: Why It Was Moved - Part 3

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            In the first post of this series, we saw why, in two Greek manuscripts of John, the section about the adulteress appears before...
Thursday, January 19, 2017

John 7:53-8:11: Why It Was Moved - Part 2

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          In the previous post, I addressed the first question raised by a question-raising note about John 7:53-8:11 in the newly release...
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Wednesday, January 18, 2017

John 7:53-8:11: Why It Was Moved – Part 1

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          John 7:53-8:11 (a passage known as the pericope adulterae  – the section about the adulteress) is in 1,495 Greek manuscripts, in...
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Monday, January 16, 2017

"Some Manuscripts Say . . ." - The Problem with Footnotes

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          Why are the footnotes in most English translations of the New Testament so unhelpfully vague?  “Some manuscripts say this .”  “Ot...
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Saturday, January 14, 2017

Nestle-Aland 28: Much Ado About Even Less

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          In the previous post, I concluded that although it has been claimed that the new edition of the Nestle-Aland compilation of the ...
Thursday, January 12, 2017

Nestle-Aland 28: Much Ado About Almost Nothing

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          It has been almost four years since the release of the 28th edition of the Nestle-Aland Novum Testamentum Graece , the first revi...
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Wednesday, January 11, 2017

Resurrection Readings: The Heothina and How They Developed

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          In addition to manuscripts of the Gospels in which one book follows another, textual critics also consult Evangelistiaries, or Go...
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