Text-Critical Witnesses and Methodology for Isolating a Distinctive D-Text in Acts

Within the past decade, a few leading New Testament textual critics have challenged two major, long-standing convictions by urging that we should speak no longer (1) of “text-types” or (2) of two textual streams in the Acts of the Apostles. Certainly the term “type” is too rigid and definitive to de...

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Main Author: Epp, Eldon Jay 1930- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2017
In: Novum Testamentum
Year: 2017, Volume: 59, Issue: 3, Pages: 225-296
Further subjects:B Acts text-types textual clusters Codex Bezae Codex Vaticanus Codex Sinaiticus D-Text “Western” text New Testament textual criticism textual mixture
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Summary:Within the past decade, a few leading New Testament textual critics have challenged two major, long-standing convictions by urging that we should speak no longer (1) of “text-types” or (2) of two textual streams in the Acts of the Apostles. Certainly the term “type” is too rigid and definitive to describe our textual groups, and “textual clusters” is more appropriate. The present essay concerns whether dual texts can be identified certifiably in Acts, thereby distinguishing a “D-Textual Cluster” from an alternate cluster headed by Codex Vaticanus (B) and Codex Sinaiticus ( א). It is clear that all D-Text Primary witnesses are mixed texts that, over time in various ways, have been conformed and assimilated to the increasingly dominant B-Cluster, as well as to the ascending Byzantine text.
ISSN:1568-5365
Contains:In: Novum Testamentum
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/15685365-12341571