Tag: Textual Criticism
Truly unmethodical: Gadamer’s “Truth and Method” in English translation
I’ve sometimes had the privilege of teaching a seminar in which H.-G. Gadamer’s Truth and Method was the core text through which we worked over the course of the term. The work’s English translation is in its second edition, prepared by Joel Weinsheimer and Donald Marshall. This second edition, however, now exists in at least four different…
Textual criticism in Logos
Software certainly can’t replace expertise when filtering through text-critical data. But it can provide some useful assistance in pulling that data together. For an overview of some of the text-critical tools available in Logos Bible Software (affiliate disclosure), check out the overview in this video for how to use the textual criticism section in the…
TC 21
The newest volume of TC has been released, containing eight book reviews and the following articles: Gregory R. Lanier, “A Case for the Assimilation of Matthew 21:44 to the Lukan “Crushing Stone” (20:18), with Special Reference to 104” Aron Pinker, “A New Attempt to Interpret Job 30:24” Georg Gäbel, The Import of the Versions for…
Greenspoon, review of Tov, Text-critical use of the Septuagint
Leonard Greenspoon has a helpful review of the third edition of Emanuel Tov’s Text-Critical Use of the Septuagint in Biblical Research (Eisenbrauns, 2015). Particularly useful are Greenspoon’s observations about changes in this edition over against the previous one.
Larger Cambridge Septuagint Online
The Larger Cambridge Septuagint project, The Old Testament in Greek according to the Text of Codex Vaticanus, had 9 fascicles published from 1909 to 1940. These fascicles are available in full-text PDFs via Internet Archive: Although the Larger Cambridge series is incomplete and has been superseded by the Göttingen edition, the volumes are still quite valuable…
Logical Impossibility in ECM
Peter Gurry reflects on the “logical impossibility” criterion that feeds into the Editio Critica Maior‘s account of “variants”: The Editio Critica Maior defines a “variant” as a reading that is both “grammatically correct and logically possible.” If it doesn’t meet these two criteria it is marked with an f for Fehler (= error). Neither criteria…