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About Google Book Search Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and to make it universally accessible and useful. Google Book Search helps readers discover the world’s books while helping authors and publishers reach new audiences. You can search through the full text of this book on the web at http://books.google.com/ 1 HandbooktothetextualcriticismofNewTestament SirFredericGeorgeKenyon HandbooktothetextualcriticismofNewTestament SirFredericGeorgeKenyon HANDBOOK TO THE TEXTUAL CRITICISM OF THE NEW TESTAMENT MACMILLAN AND CO., Limited LONDON • BOMBAY . CALCUTTA MELBOURNE THE MACMILLAN COMPANY NEW YORK • BOSTON • CH1CAGO DALLAS • SAN FRANC1SCO THE MaCMILLAN CO. OF CANADA. Ltd. TORONTO HANDBOOK TO THE TEXTUAL CRITICISM OF THE NEW TESTAMENT BY Sir FREDERIC G. KENYON, K.C.B., F.B.A. D1RICTOR AND niNCiFAL L1BRAR1AN, BR1T1SH MUSIUM SECOND EDITION WITH SIXTEEN FACSIMILES MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED ST. MARTIN'S STREET, LONDON 1912 COPYRIGHT First Edition, Qvo, 1901 Second Edition, Extra Crown %voi 1912 ffieorgio Eftrtung EPISCOPO SOUTHWELLENSI COLLEGII B.V.M. WINTON PROPE WINTON OLIM INFORMATOR! HUNC LIBRUM GRATO ANIMO DEDICAT DISCIPULUS 274979 PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION A NEW edition of this handbook being required, I have endeavoured to bring the information contained in it up to date. The principal alteration made in it is in regard to the numeration of the MSS. The new system proposed by von Soden is described, and likewise the modification of the notation hitherto in use which Gregory, after consultation with a large number of Biblical scholars, has elaborated ; and the latter has been adopted in this edition. A new section is also devoted to von Soden's theory of the textual history of the New Testament. In other respects, though there are many alterations in detail, the book remains substantially as before ; but the opportunity has been taken to issue it at a lower price, which, it is hoped, may make it more accessible to the students to whom it is most likely to be useful. I have to thank many friends for suggestions and corrections, notably Prof. C. R. Gregory and Prof. J. Hope Moulton. F. G. K. August 20, 1912. vii PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION The object of this volume is to provide a serviceable handbook to the textual criticism of the New Testament for the use of students who are comparatively new to the subject. It lays no claim to rival the standard works of Gregory and Scrivener as a storehouse of statistics and bibliographical information, though in certain details it has been possible to supplement them and bring them up to date ; on the other hand, the discussion of textual theories is somewhat fuller than the plans of those works admitted of. It seemed advisable to indicate to the student the present state of the principal controversies with regard to textual theory ; and I have tried to represent all the more important views fully and fairly, whether I agree with them or not. The lists of authorities prefixed to the several chapters are not intended to be exhaustive, but to indicate either those works which I have chiefly con sulted, or those which will be most useful to the student (especially the English student), who wishes to push his inquiries further. Such a work as this is in great measure dependent on the labours of others, iz x CRITICISM OF NEW TESTAMENT to whom my indebtedness is, I hope, fully acknow ledged throughout. I have also to thank Cavaliere F. Carta, Chief Librarian of the National Library at Turin, for his courtesy in enabling me to obtain a photograph of a page of the Codex Bobiensis ; Mr. W. E. Crum for much information with regard to the Coptic Versions ; and especially Mr. C. H. Turner, Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, and the Rev. H. E. Salter, vicar of Shirburn, for their kindness in reading the proofs and making many valuable suggestions and corrections. F. G. K. October 21, 1901. CONTENTS CMAF. FAGK I. The Function of Textual Criticism . i II. The Autographs of the New Testament . 19 Catalogue of Papyri . .41 III. The Uncial Manuscripts . .45 i IV. The Minuscule Manuscripts . .124 V. The Ancient Versions . .145 1. The Syriac Versions . .147 (a) The Diatessaron of Tatian . .148 (6) The Old Syriac . 151 (<:) The Peshitto . .158 (rf) The Philoxenian and Harkleian Syriac. 164 (e) The Palestinian Syriac . .167 2. The Armenian Version . .171 3. The Georgian Version . .174 4. The Persian Versions . .175 5. The Coptic Versions . .176 (a) The Bohairic Version . .181 (*) The Sahidic Version . .185 (c) The Middle Egyptian Versions 192 xi xii CRITICISM OF NEW TESTAMENT CHAP. PAGE 6. The Ethiopic Version . .194 7. The Arabic Versions . .195 8. The Latin Versions . .196 (a) The Old Latin 197 (6) The Vulgate . .216 9. The Gothic Version . .240 VI. Patristic Quotations .... 242 VII. Textual Criticism in the Past . 265 VIII. The Textual Problem . .314 1. The o-text . 315 2. The /?-text ..... 327 3. The y-text . -334 4. The 8-text . -338 5. von Soden's Textual Theory 363 INDEX I. Subjects and Persons . 37 1 INDEX II. Passages of which the various Read ings are noticed . .380 PLATES [Most of the facsimiles are reduced in scale, in order to show complete pages ; the scale of reduction is stated in each case on the plate.] PACE PAGE I. Hyperides pro Euxenippo (Papyrus Roll of the First Century, literary hand) . .28 II. Aristotle's 'Adrjvalwv HoXireCa (Papyrus Roll of the First Century, non-literary hand) . 30 III. Codex Sinaiticus, 4th century . .60 IV. Codex Alexandrinus, 5th century . .72 V. Codex Vaticanus, 4th century . .78 VI. Codex Bezae, 6th century . .89 VII. Codex Regius, 8th century . 108 VIII. Codex Nitriensis, 6th century . .113 IX. Codex 81, a.d. 1044 .... 134 X. Codex 700, 1 2th century . .139 XI. The Curetonian Syriac MS., 5th century . 151 XII. The Peshitto Syriac (Brit. Mus. Add. MS. 14459), a.D. 530-540 ..... 161 XIII. The Bohairic Version (Curzon Catena), a.d. 889 . 183 XIV. The Sahidic Version (Brit. Mus. MS. Or. 3518), 5th century (?) . .187 XV. The Codex Bobiensis (k of the Old Latin), 5th century (?) . 203 XVI. The Lindisfarne Gospels (Y of the Vulgate), circ. a.d. 700 ..... 234 xiii CHAPTER I THE FUNCTION OF TEXTUAL CRITICISM The province of Textual Criticism is the ascertainment of the true form of a literary work, as originally composed and written down by its author. The science owes its existence to the conditions under which, until comparatively modern days, literary works have been preserved. If the author's autograph of every book were still in existence, there could be no dispute as to what he had written ; or if printing had been practised from the earliest days of literary com position, we could be sure that every book had been handed down to us in practically unaltered form. For authors of the last four centuries, with few exceptions, we are in the happy condition of being certain that we possess their works, to all intents and purposes, pre cisely as they wrote them.
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