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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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Brill
2017
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Novum Testamentum
Year: 2017, Volume: 59, Issue: 3, Pages: 225-296 |
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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. |
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ISSN: | 1568-5365 |
Contains: | In: Novum Testamentum
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15685365-12341571 |