Resources for Textual Criticism
Important Sites for charting External Evidence:
Institute for New Testament Textual Research New Testament Transcripts Prototype (see font requirements)
List of suffixes that are frequently used on the INTTRNTTP website (e.g., T, C, Z, K, V). (in Portuguese)
Age, Text-Type and Aland Category of Witnesses to the Text of the New Testament:
Greek Manuscripts (Papyri, Uncials, Minuscules, Lectionaries)
Consistently Cited MSS of the First and Second Order (while those using the lists in NA27 often fail to include the CCM of the second order, this is a complete list of both orders)
Versions (Latin, Syriac, Coptic, etc.)
Church Fathers (listed in NA27 or UBS4)
Contents of Greek MSS (to see if it contains your text [ignore asterisks next to MSS in this chart – they simply indicate that the MS is a Consistently Cited Witness for some book[s])
Symbols and Abbreviations of NA27 (for Latin words and phrases use this link and ask your professor for help if you still do not understand what it means).
Greek Geek Resources (some of these tools do not work with Mozilla Firefox, use Internet Explorer)
Other Important Text Criticism Sites:
New Testament Gateway Textual Criticism Links
Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts
The Encyclopedia of New Testament Textual Criticism
Virtual Manuscripts Room (best in Firefox or Safari)
Images of P46 (the part housed at the University of Michigan). See also this introduction to P46
Images of P52 (earliest known fragment of the NT in any language) John 18:31-33 (recto), John 18:37-38 (verso)
BibleWorks™
Manuscript Project
Origen’s
Hexapla (ed. F. Field), Volume 1; Volume 2; The Hexapla Institute
Richard Wilson’s LaParola.net Site for New Testament Textual Criticism
Perseus Search Tools (may analyze Latin words used in an apparatus as well as other uses)
Wieland Willker’s Textual Criticism Links
Evangelical Textual Criticism (blog)
GreekGeek.net. Website with technical tools to assist students in writing exegesis papers. Especially helpful for installing Greek fonts and for preparing text-critical charts for external evidence regarding textual variants in the Greek New Testament.
Reference Charts for Textual Criticism (© Roy E. Ciampa, 2003). These are charts I have prepared in an attempt to place key information at the fingertips of my students for their work in textual criticism. It is best (quicker) to navigate through these charts using the bookmarks I have included. Note: This pdf file may also be copied from a CD with other relevant materials for NT exegesis which is on reserve in the Goddard library. A Portuguese version of these charts is also available.
Aland & Aland, The Text of the New Testament (search inside the book for the information you need). To find the contents of NT papyri search inside the book for “Contents Papyri Matthew Mark Luke John 28” (without the quotation marks) and click on the link. To find the contents of NT uncial manuscripts search inside the book for “Contents Uncial 0298” (for Matthew-Luke), “Contents Uncial continued 0299” (for John-Epistles), or “Contents Uncial continued Thessalonians” (for more epistles-Revelation) and click on the link.
Bruce Manning Metzger, The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption, and Restoration.
Bruce Manning Metzger, Manuscripts of the Greek Bible: An Introduction to Paleography
Bart D. Ehrman, The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture: The Effect of Early Christological Controversies on the Text of the New Testament
TC Ebind Index (Digitized works of value to the study of biblical textual criticism). Use “any” (without the quotation marks) for username and password.
10-2010
