Textual Scholarship and the Making of the New Testament

The book is going through its biggest revolution since Gutenberg. Thanks to computer tools and electronic publication, the concept and realisation of critical editions are being rethought. As so often in the history of scholarship, editors of the New Testament are making a vital contribution to these changes. In this book, originally the Lyell Lectures in Bibliography at Oxford, David C. Parker explores textual scholarship, in particular the idea of the edition. He argues that textual scholarship has had an important influence on the meaning given to the term 'New Testament'. Starting with the observation that a text is a process, not an object, he proposes a new way of understanding the relationship between manuscripts, the texts which manuscripts contain and the work they represent as the basis for critical scholarship. This leads him to challenge the idea of a 'Greek New Testament manuscript', and thus to reconsider the nature of the New Testament as a collection of works and the nature and purpose of critical editions. By studying new tools for studying how manuscripts are related to each other, he shows how the modern digital edition of the New Testament has overcome the impasses created by the failure of Lachmannian stemmatics to deal with the problem of contamination. Exploring the emergence of the critical edition in modern scholarship, Parker discusses the ways in which a digital edition advances scholarship and gives the reader more opportunities both to scrutinise the quality of the edition and to access the raw data on which it is based. The whole book uses New Testament research as a paradigm of wider changes in textual scholarship.

Religion & Spirituality

Parker, David C.

Christian Books & Bibles

Oxford University Press

Codex Bezae is one of the most important primary sources in New Testament scholarship. Since its rediscovery in the sixteenth century it has continued to fascinate scholars, who have remained intrigued by the riddles of its general appearance and textual characteristics. David Parker makes the first comprehensive investigation of the manuscript for over a century, and sets out to uncover the story behind this most enigmatic of manuscripts. By studying the characteristics of Codex Bezae, both physical and textual, and by comparing its Greek and Latin texts, the author aims to show how a bilingual tradition developed, and thus to discover as much as possible about its earliest stages, which leads to an important new theory about its origins. In a final section, the general character of the text is assessed with a view to what this can tell us of the earliest traditions about Jesus.

Codex Bezae: An Early Christian Manuscript and its Text

Cambridge University Press

Codex Bezae is one of the most important primary sources in New Testament scholarship. Since its rediscovery in the sixteenth century it has continued to fascinate scholars, who have remained intrigued by the riddles of its general appearance and textual characteristics. David Parker makes the first comprehensive investigation of the manuscript for over a century, and sets out to uncover the story behind this most enigmatic of manuscripts. By studying the characteristics of Codex Bezae, both physical and textual, and by comparing its Greek and Latin texts, the author aims to show how a bilingual tradition developed, and thus to discover as much as possible about its earliest stages, which leads to an important new theory about its origins. In a final section, the general character of the text is assessed with a view to what this can tell us of the earliest traditions about Jesus.

History

Ancient Civilizations

Accessibly written and featuring illustrative case examples, this book provides a complete guide to curriculum-based assessment for instructional design (CBA-ID). CBA-ID comprises easy-to-implement, reliable, and valid procedures for determining a student's instructional level and individualizing instruction by developing tasks that are neither too hard nor too easy. It is a key tool for supporting K-8 students who are struggling in reading, math, or writing, and is ideally suited for intervention planning within multi-tiered systems of support. Including reproducible forms, the print book has a large-size format and lay-flat binding to facilitate photocopying. Purchasers also get access to a Web page where they can download and print the reproducible materials. This book is in The Guilford Practical Intervention in the Schools Series, edited by T. Chris Riley-Tillman.

Curriculum-Based Assessment for Instructional Design: Using Data to Individualize Instruction (The Guilford Practical Intervention in the Schools Series)

Education & Teaching

Burns, Matthew K.

Schools & Teaching

The Guilford Press

Manuscripts, Texts, Theology: Collected Papers 1977-2007 (Arbeiten zur neutestamentlichen Textforschung, 40)

David C. Parker is one of the world´s foremost specialists in New Testament textual research. This volume brings together his most important short writings on the topic in a revised and updated version. They cover studies of individual manuscripts and groups and analyses of textual problems, assessments of editions, as well as discussions of passages where the New Testament text is uncertain, and of the wider exegetical and theological significance of the passages.

de Gruyter

This volume brings together his most important short writings on the topic in a revised and updated version. They cover studies of individual manuscripts and groups and analyses of textual problems, assessments of editions, as well as discussions of passages where the New Testament text is uncertain, and of the wider exegetical and theological significance of the passages.

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Textual Scholarship and the Making of the New Testament

Textual Scholarship and the Making of the New Testament

Codex Bezae: An Early Christian Manuscript and its Text

Codex Bezae: An Early Christian Manuscript and its Text

Curriculum-Based Assessment for Instructional Design: Using Data to Individualize Instruction (The Guilford Practical Intervention in the Schools Series)

Manuscripts, Texts, Theology: Collected Papers 1977-2007 (Arbeiten zur neutestamentlichen Textforschung, 40)

Manuscripts, Texts, Theology: Collected Papers 1977-2007 (Arbeiten zur neutestamentlichen Textforschung, 40)