The text of the New Testament : its transmission, corruption, and restoration /
Bruce M. Metzger, Bart D. Ehrman.
- 4th ed.
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
- xvi, 366 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 345-348) and indexes.
Part I: The materials for the textual criticism of the New Testament -- The making of ancient books -- Important witnesses to the text of the New Testament -- Part II: the history of the New Testament textual criticism as reflected in printed editions of the Greek Testament -- The precritical period : the origin and dominance of the textus receptus -- The modern critical period : from Griesbach to the present -- Part III: The application of textual criticism to the text of the New Testament -- The origins of textual criticism as a scholarly discipline -- Modern methods of textual criticism -- The causes of error in the transmission of the text of the New Testament -- History of the transmission of the text of the New Testament -- The practice of New Testament textual criticism.