Directory of Textual Studies Resources

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This category is for sites that deal with the study of the text of the Bible--whether in the original manuscripts, or the copies, or early translations. It is not for sites discussing the _meaning_ of the text: only for determining _what_ the text was. Obviously, an accurate and reliable text is of great interest to all who wish to translate it, or study its meaning: hence the primary place of this field in Biblical studies. This is sometimes called "Textual Criticism" or "Lower Criticism."

Subcategories

• King James Version Only Debate
• New Testament

Resources in This Category

• Biblica NIV Resource Center

  http://www.biblica.com/niv/
  Background about the New International Version translation; complete online NIV text.

• Duke Papyrus Archive

  http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/scriptorium/papyrus/
  Features online access to over 1,375 ancient Egyptian papyri at Duke University, including many early Christian texts (liturgical and Biblical texts).

• Evangelical Textual Criticism

  http://evangelicaltextualcriticism.blogspot.com/
  Forum to discuss Bible manuscripts and textual history.

• Interpreting Ancient Manuscripts Website

  http://www.earlham.edu/~seidti/iam/interp_mss.html
  Introduction to Biblical text critical methods and ancient manuscripts (primarily Greek, transliterated into English). Excellent resource, originally at Brown University, now at Earlham School of Religion.

• Notes on the Septuagint

  http://mysite.verizon.net/rgjones3/Septuagint/spindex.htm
  Articles on the origin, transmission, and New Testament use of the Septuagint (Ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament).

• Oxyrhynchus Papyri Online

  http://www.papyrology.ox.ac.uk/
  Information, background, texts and images of Greek papyri important for the study of early Christianity and Gnosticism.

• TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism

  http://rosetta.reltech.org/TC/TC.html
  Peer-reviewed online journal. (Articles and book reviews solicited)

• The OpenText Project

  http://opentext.org/
  Ongoing project, resources and data for the analysis of Hellenistic Greek, especially the Greek of the New Testament. Texts are annotated with linguistic information, such as text-critical, grammatical, semantic, and discourse features.

• The Role of New Testament Manuscripts in Early Christian Studies

  http://rosetta.reltech.org/TC/vol05/Ehrman2000a.html
  Lecture One: The Exegetical Significance of the "Original" Text by Bart D. Ehrman.

• The Role of New Testament Manuscripts in Early Christian Studies

  http://rosetta.reltech.org/TC/vol05/Ehrman2000b.html
  Lecture Two: The Historical Significance of the "Altered" Text by Bart D. Ehrman.

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