Barbara Aland shaped modern New Testament textual criticism by anchoring the Greek text in early manuscripts and principled documentary method.
Barbara Aland (1937–2024): Architect of the Modern Greek New Testament and Defender of Documentary Method
Johann Jakob Griesbach (1745–1812): New Testament Textual Criticism Scholar, Textual Families, and the Griesbach Hypothesis
Griesbach organized textual families and grounded decisions in early, independent witnesses, paving a disciplined path to recover the New Testament’s original wording.
Caspar René Gregory (1846–1917): Architect of Modern New Testament Manuscript Cataloguing and External-Documentary Methodology
Gregory built the stable numbering system for Greek New Testament manuscripts and modeled a documentary-first method anchored in early Alexandrian witnesses.
Can We Trust Westcott and Hort’s 1881 Greek New Testament? Evaluating the “Occultist Unbelievers” Charge and the Reliability of Their Text
Were Westcott and Hort occultists? The documents—not rumors—show their 1881 Greek text aligns with the earliest witnesses and remains a reliable starting point.
