Introductions and surveys

Current trends, views and debates

Manuscripts and their world (books, scribes and readers)

Working with manuscripts

Current trends in dating NT papyri

Barker, Don. “The Dating of New Testament Papyri.” New Testament Studies 57 (2011): 571-582.

57 (2011): 571-582. Nongbri, Brent. “Grenfell and Hunt on the Dates of Early Christian Codices: Setting the Record Straight.” Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 48 (2011): 149-162.

48 (2011): 149-162. Nongbri, Brent. “The Use and Abuse of P52: Papyrological Pitfalls in Dating of the Fourth Gospel.”Harvard Theological Review 98 (2005): 23-48.

Scribal habits

The earliest Text

Patristic citations

Ehrman, Bart D. “The Use and Significance of Patristic Evidence for NT Textual Criticism.” Pages 118-35 in New Testament Textual Criticism, Exegesis, and Early Church History. A Discussion of Methods . Edited by Barbara Aland and Joël Delobel. CBET 7, Kampen [The Netherlands]: Kok Pharos, 1994.

. Edited by Barbara Aland and Joël Delobel. CBET 7, Kampen [The Netherlands]: Kok Pharos, 1994. Fee, G. D. [See Epp and Fee, Studies , 1993 for several of Fee’s works on patristic citations]

, 1993 for several of Fee’s works on patristic citations] Osburn, Carroll D. “Methodology in Identifying Patristic Citations in NT Textual Criticism.” In Novum Testamentum 47.4 (2005): 313-343.

Early versions

Practice of NT textual criticism

*Metzger, Bruce M., A Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament. 2d ed. Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 1994. [This reference work and companion volume to the UBSGNT reflects the dominant practice of textual criticism (reasoned eclecticism) which takes into account external and internal evidence in passages where there is textual variation.]

Conjectural emendation

Other NT text-critical “classics”

General textual criticism

What are the most essential works you should read if you want to get acquainted with the field of New Testament textual criticism? I have compiled a general bibliography andWhat are your proposals?[Note that these introductions cover several topics which are treated in the specialized reading list below. For example, several of Fee’s essays inrelate to the use of patristic citations.]