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Adair, James R. - A Modern Experiment in Studying the Ancients

Aland, Kurt
Greek New Testament: Its Present and Future Editions, Journal of Biblical Literature, 87 June, 1968.
Significance of the Papyri for Progress in New Testament Research, Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1965.

Alexandria, The Library of

Ancient Documents, Oxford University Centre for the Study of

Ancient Greek (Hellenic) Sites on the World-Wide Web

Ancient Writing - See Epigraphy

Anti-Nicene Fathers, Editors Roberts and Donalson, 10 Vols., Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 1951

Antioch Classical Languages Utility


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Barbour, Ruth - Greek Literary Hands A.D. 400-1600, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981.

Barclay, William - The New Testament and the Papyri, Oxford: Blackwell, 1965.

Barns, J.W.B. - Papyrus Bodmer II. Some Corrections and Remarks, Museon, 70:3-4 (1962), pp. 327-29.

Becker, Siegbert W. - Verbal Inspiration and the Variant Readings, Wisconsin Lutheran Quarterly, 1974, pp. 169-184.

Bible - Is Our Copy of the Bible a Reliable Copy of the Original?

Bible Researcher
Bibles:
Small BibleLITV Small BibleKJV Small BibleNASV Small BibleNET Small BibleNIV Small BibleNAB Small BibleNLT Small BibleDeutsch
Small BibleEspañol Small BiblePortuguese Small BibleFrançais Small BibleItaliano Small BibleChinese Small BibleKorean

This is just a very brief sampling of our expanded list of many Online Bibles in several languages. Also included are other sections dealing with church history, educational resources, beliefs and doctrines, early Christian writers, biblical maps, and religious software.
Birdsall, J. Neville - The Bodmer Papyrus of the Gospel of John, London: Tyndale Press, 1960.

Black, Matthew - An Aramaic Approach to the Gospels and Acts, 3rd ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1967.

Bruce, F.F. - The Books and the Parchments, London: Pickering & Inglis Ltd., 1953.

Bruggen, Jakob Van - The Ancient Text of the New Testament, Winnipeg: Premier Printing, 1976.
Burgon, John William
1 John 5:7
Are they identical? (Majority Text and the Original Text)
The Revision Revised, London: Murray, 1885.
Who Was He?
What did Burgon really believe about the Textus Receptus?
Byzantine Text
Arguments For and Against
Bible Behind the Bible
Bibliography
Medieval Links Index
Priority
Studies and Resources
Textus Receptus


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Canonization of the Bible
Canon of the Old Testament (Catholic Encyclopedia)
Canon of the New Testament (Catholic Encyclopedia)
Canon of the New Testament (Collins)
Could we discover additional parts of the Bible?
Development Of The Biblical Canon
Emergence of the New Testament Canon
Formation Of The New Testament Canon
Timeline of Canonization
Tough Questions & Answers

Carson, D.A. - The King James Version Debate: A Plea for Realism, Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 1979.

Chronology of Christianity

Clark, Kenneth W. - Effect of Recent Textual Criticism Upon the New Testament, Cambridge: University Press, 1956.

Clark, Kenneth W. - Today's Problems with the Critical Text of the New Testament, University of Chicago Press, 1968.

Codex Manuscripts - See Manuscripts

Colwell, Ernest - Origin of Texttypes of New Testament Manuscripts, The, Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1961.

Colwell, Ernest - Scribal Habits in Early Papyri: A Study in the Corruption of the Text, the Bible in Modern Scholarship, New York: Abingdon Press, 1965.

Colwell, Ernest - Studies in Methodology in Textual Criticism of the New Testament. New Testament Text and Tools, Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 1969.

Colwell's Rule: Revisiting the Colwell Construction by Donald E. Hartley

Comfort, Philip - Early Manuscripts & Modern Translations of the New Testament, Wheaton: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.,

Critique of New Testament Reliability and "Bias" in NT Development

Crucifixion in Antiquity


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Darren's Guide to Translations

Dating the New Testament Books

Dating the Oldest New Testament Manuscripts by Peter van Minnen

Dean Burgon Society


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Early Church Documents: Institute for Christian Leadership

Epp, Eldon J., and Fee, Gordon D. - Eclectic Method in New Testament Textual Criticism: Solution or Symptom? HTR 69 (July-October 1976): 211-57.

Electronic Images: Religious Studies Web Guide

Elliott, James - A Survey of Manuscripts Used in Editions of the Greek New Testament, Vol. 57. Leiden; New York: E. J. Brill, 1987.

Encyclopedia of New Testament Textual Criticism

Epigraphy
Abbreviations in Latin Inscriptions
Ancient Egyptian Writing - Hieroglyphs
Ancient Writing System
Earliest Writing?
Who Was First?
Writing in Egypt under Greek and Roman Rule
Excellence of The Authorized Version


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Fonts (Greek):
BST
Mounce
Robie
SIL
Uncial

Fuller, David - True or False? Grand Rapids: Grand Rapids International Publications, 1973.


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Glossary of Translation

Glossary of Textual Criticism (Rutgers)

Glossary of Textual Criticism (Seid)

Greek New Testament:
BCBSR - Greek Grammar
Bover, Joseph, M., Novi Testamenti Biblia Graece et Latina, Madrid: Talleres Graficos
H KAINH DIATHEKE, London: The British and Foreign Bible Society, 1958.
Nestle/Aland NA26 Novum Testamentum Graece by Tony Fisher
Overview of Greek Syntax
Perseus: English-Greek Lookup
Smith Greek Grammar
Textual Commentary on Greek Gospels - Wieland Willker
Textus Receptus, The (Waltz)
United Bible Societies, The Greek New Testament, Stuttgart: Biblia-Druck GmbH
Westcott, Brooke and Fenton Hort - The New Testament in the Original Greek, London: Macmillan, 1895
Westcott/Hort (1881) combined with variants of Nestle/Aland (26/27)

Greenlee, J. Harold - Introduction to New Testament Textual Criticism Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1964.


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Hills, Edward - The King James Bible Defended, Des Moines: The Christian Research Press, 1973.

Hort, Fenton - Six Lectures on the Ante-Nicene Fathers, London: Macmillan, 1895.

Hoskier, Herman - Codex B and Its Allies, A Study and An Indictment, London: Bernard Quaritch, 1914.

How Old Are the Most Ancient New Testament Manuscripts Known Today?


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Interpreting Ancient Manuscripts


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Kenyon, F.G. - Handbook To The Textual Criticism Of The New Testament, London: Macmillan, 1912.

King James Version Controversy:
History of the King James Bible (AV1611)
History of the King James Bible (PRCA)
Ken Collins Biblical Resources
King James I (extensive biographical information)
KJV Only Advocates Refuted
KJV and The Professor (rebuttal to D.A. Carson)
Revisions? or Editions?
The Word Of God
What Is King James Onlyism?
See also Gale Riplinger: New Age Bibles


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Lake, Kirsopp - The Text of the New Testament, 6th Edition, London: Rivingtons, 1959.

Languages of the Bible

Lectionaries - See under Manuscripts

Libraries and Archives of Manuscript Collections


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Majority Text:
English Majority Text
Majority Text Society
Some Second Thoughts

Manuscripts:
1012 through 2768 MSS - 9th to 16th Centuries
1501-2000 MSS
  Codex
    Alexandrinus
Amiatinus
Bezae Cantabrigiensis
Ephraemi Rescriptus
Sinaiticus
  Tischendorf
    Historical Summary of the Discovery
Personal Testimony of the Sinaitic Discovery
    Vaticanus
Washingtonensis
Conversion Numbers
Dating the New Testament Books
Evolution of the Uncial Script
  Hebrew
    Geniza Project (Princeton)
How Many Manuscripts Exist Today?
How Old Are the Most Ancient New Testament Manuscripts Known Today?
Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts
  Lectionaries
    Introduction by Walz
When Will It Be Read?
Manuscripts of the Gospels
Manuscripts of the Bible
Paleography, Codicology, Digitized Images, Bibliographies, and Collections
  Papyrus
    Catalogue with Descriptions
Collection of the University of Michigan
P 13
P 20
P 40
P 46
P 52, P 52, P 52
P 54
P 86
Rylands Library Manuscript Collections
Text-Types And Textual Kinship

Manuscript evidence for superior New Testament reliability

Mark 16: 9-20
Ending of Mark (16:9-20)
Is the ending of Mark really scripture?
Notes on Mark's Ending
The Style Of The Long Ending Of Mark

Metzger, Bruce
A Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament, Stuttgart: Biblia-Druck GmbH (German Bible Society), 1975.
Bible Versions: Ancient, Modern, The Text, Canon and Principal Versions of the Bible, Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1956.
Manuscripts of the Greek Bible, An Introduction to Greek Palaeography, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1981.
The Early Versions of the New Testament: Their Origin, Transmission, and Limitations, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1977.


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Nestle, Eberhard - Introduction to the Textual Criticism of the Greek New Testament. Trans. by William Edie. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1901.

New Age Bibles - See Riplinger, Gail


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Original Bible Project

Oxyrhynchus: A City and its Texts


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Paleography
Byzantine,
Visual Examples

Papyrology
Papyrology Room (University of Michigan)
Papyrus Archive of Duke University
Writing in Egypt under Greek and Roman Rule

Papyrus Fragments - See Manuscripts

Peshitta.Org

Perseus Digital Library: Ancient Texts with Translation

Philo of Alexandria Resources

Pickering, Wilbur
Contribution of John William Burgon to New Testament Textual Criticism, True or False, Grand Rapids: Grand Rapids International Publications, 1973.
Available Books and Summaries
Identity of the New Testament

Providential Preservation of the Greek Text of the New Testament


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Richards, W. L. - A Critique of a New Testament Text-Critical Methodology -- The Claremont Profile Method JBL 96 (December 1977): 555-566.

Riplinger Controversy: New Age Bible Versions (NABV)
  About Gail Riplinger
Cloud, David - The Problem with New Age Bible Versions
    Riplinger's response to David Cloud's criticism
David Cloud's rejoinder to Riplingers response
  Lockman Foundation's Reply to Gail Riplinger
McNeil, Mark - A Critical Review
Doubting Thomas: Riblinger Rebuts Lockman Foundation editor Robert Thomas
    Riplinger's Reponse to Passantinos (and others)
  Thomas, Robert L - Book Review of Riplinger's New Age Bible Versions
White, James : New Age Bible Versions Refuted
    Riplinger's Response to James White
James White - Why Respond to Gail Riplinger

Robertson, A.T.
An Introduction to the Textual Criticism of the New Testament, Nashville: Broadman Press, 1925.
Studies in the Text of the New Testament, New York: Doran, 1969.

Rylands University Library of Manchester


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Scribes - A Brief History of Scriptoria

Scrivener, Frederick - A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, 2 Vols., London: Bell & Sons, 1894.

Septuagint
Additional Resources
LXX (Bible database)
LXX (Haggett)
Quotations in the New Testament

Soulen, Richard - Handbook of Biblical Criticism, Atlanta: John Knox Press, 1976.

Sturz, Harry - The Byzantine text-type & New Testament Textual Criticism, Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1984.


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Taylor, Vincent - The Text of the New Testament: A Short Introduction New York: St. Martin's Press, 1961.

Textual Criticism
An Exercise in Textual Criticism With Simulated Manuscripts
Biographies of Textual Critics
Brief History of Textual Criticism
Byzantine Priority Hypothesis
Correctors and Corrections
Critical Editions of the New Testament
Development of the New Testament Text
Divisions and Organization of the Text
eGroups List Server Archives
Encyclopedia of New Testament Textual Criticism
Erasmus and the Textus Receptus
Inspiration, Preservation, and New Testament Textual Criticism
Liddell-Scott-Jones Lexicon of Classical Greek
Majority Text and the Original Text: Are They Identical
Manuscripts of the Bible
New Testament Gateway
Nomina Sacra
Non-Biblical Textual Criticism
Second Thoughts on the Majority Text
Student's Guide to New Testament Textual Variants
Textual Criticism and Manuscript Interpretation
Text Types And Textual Kinship
Translations and the Greek Text
Versions of the Bible

Textus Receptus, The

Timeline: Emergence of Christian Scriptures, and the history of Biblical manuscripts

Translation & Interpretation
Colorado Springs Guidelines: Gender-Related Language
Current Trends in New Testament Studies
Dynamic Equivalence: Translation Or Hermeneutics?
Ecclesiastical And Coptic Principles
Interpreting Ancient Manuscripts
Key Concepts in Linquistics
Returning To Scripture: Trends In Postcritical Interpretation
Translation And Meaning - Magdy M. Zaky
Why a Literal Translation? - Jay N. Forrest


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United Bible Societies - The Greek New Testament, Stuttgart: Biblia-Druck GmbH (German Bible Society), 1983.


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Vine's Expository of New Testament Words


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West Semitic Research Project

Westcott, Brooke and Fenton Hort - The New Testament in the Original Greek, London: Macmillan, 1895.

Wikgren, A.P. - New Testament Greek Lectionaries, Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1956.

Writing - See Epigraphy


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Zuntz, Gunther - The Text of the Epistles, London: Oxford University Press, 1953.




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