What is the Original Text?

For Further Reading

Aland, Kurt, and Aland, Barbara. The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1987.

Aland, Kurt, et al. Novum Testamentum Graece. 27th Edition. Stuttgart, Germany: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 1993.

Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia. Editio Minor. Edited by Karl Elliger and Wilhelm Rudolph. Stuttgart, Germany: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 1983.

Ehrman, Bart. The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture: The Effect of Early Christological Controversies on the Text of the New Testament. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1993.

Finegan, Jack. Encountering New Testament Manuscripts: A Working Introduction to Textual Criticism. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1974.

The Greek New Testament. 4th Revised Edition. Edited by Kurt Aland et al. Stuttgart, Germany: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 2001.

Greenlee, J. Harold. Introduction to New Testament Criticism. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1964.

Hatch, William Henry Paine. The Principal Uncial Manuscripts of the New Testament. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 1939.

Klein, Ralph W. Textual Criticism of the Old Testament: The Septuagint after Qumran. Guides to Biblical Scholarship. Philadelphia, PA: Fortress Press, 1974.

McCarter, P. Kyle, Jr. Textual Criticism: Recovering the Text of the Hebrew Bible. Guides to Biblical Scholarship. Philadelphia, PA: Fortress Press, 1986.

Metzger, Bruce Manning. The Early Versions of the New Testament: Their Origin, Transmission, and Limitations. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press, 1977.

Metzger, Bruce Manning. The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption, and Restoration. 3rd, Enlarged Edition. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1992.

Metzger, Bruce Manning. Manuscripts of the Greek Bible: An Introduction to Biblical Palaeography. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1981.

Metzger, Bruce Manning. A Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament. Stuttgart, Germany: United Bible Society, 1971.

Wescott, Brooke Foss, and Hort, Fenton John Anthony. The New Testament in the Original Greek. New York, NY: The Macmillan Company, 1925.

Wurthwein, Ernst. The Text of the Old Testament: An Introduction to Biblica Hebraica. Translated by Errol F. Rhodes. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1979.

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