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Bible Text

The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge. Vol. 2, p. 94ff.

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Table of Contents

I. The Old Testament

  1. The Premasoretic Period.
    1. The Masoretic Text.
    2. The Earlier Text.
    3. Change in Style of Writing.
    4. Attempts to Fix the Text
    5. The Pronunciation Fixed, but the Text Still Unvocalized
    6. Word-Division
    7. Division into Verses
    8. Division into Sections
  2. The Masoretic Period
    1. The Masoretes
    2. Their Work
    3. Codices
  3. The Postmasoretic Period
    1. The Chapter-Division
    2. Old Testament Manuscripts
    3. The Printed Text
    4. Critical Works and Commentaries
    5. Bibliography

II. The New Testament

  1. History of the Written Text
    1. The Autographs of the New Testament Books
    2. The Manuscripts
    3. Their Material and Form
    4. The Ammonian Sections
    5. Early Divisions of the Text
    6. Divisions for Liturgical Reading
    7. Early Corruption of the Text
    8. Varieties of Text Produced by Early Criticism
    9. The Uncial Manuscripts
    10. The Cursive Manuscripts, Evangelistaries, etc.
  2. History of the Printed Text
    1. Complutensian and Erasmian Editions
    2. Editions of Stephens and Beza
    3. Editions Between 1657 and 1830
    4. Griesbach and his Followers
    5. Lachmann
    6. Tischendorf
    7. Tregelles
    8. Westcott and Hort
    9. Other Critics of the Text
    10. More Recent Tendencies
  3. Principles of Textual Criticism
    1. The Basal Rule
    2. Other Canons
  4. Results of the Textual Criticism of the New Testament
  5. Bibliography

III. Chapter and Verse Divisions

  1. Chapter Divisions
  2. Verse Divisions, Old Testament
  3. Verse Divisions, New Testament


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