Grenfell and Hunt’s Oxyrhynchus papyri anchor early New Testament text, confirming an Alexandrian-aligned, stable tradition rooted in second-century Christian codices.
Bernard P. Grenfell and Arthur S. Hunt: Oxyrhynchus, Early New Testament Papyri
PAPYRUS 32 (P32) P. Rylands 5: A Very Early Greek Fragment Copy of the Epistle of Paul to Titus
Papyrus 32 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), designated by P32, is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Epistle to Titus, it contains only Titus 1:11-15; 2:3-8.
New Testament Textual Criticism: Analyzing Matthew 10:14—“of your feet,” “out of your feet,” or “away from your feet”?
New Testament textual criticism analyzes manuscript evidence to establish original biblical wording, focusing on variations in Matthew 10:14’s phrase.
Johann Jakob Wettstein (1693–1754): Swiss Theologian and Foundational New Testament Textual Scholar—Life, Method, and His Amsterdam Greek New Testament
Johann Jakob Wettstein forged a documentary, manuscript-driven Greek New Testament, training readers to weigh early evidence over later harmonizing expansions.
The Traditional Method and the Socio-Historical Approach of NT Textual Studies
The sad state of affairs is that textual scholarship as a whole is unwittingly or knowingly moving the goalposts for some unknown reason. In textual criticism, it is now the earliest knowable text, the sociohistorical approach to New Testament Textual Studies, and, the newest trend of trying to redate our earliest NT papyri.
CODEX ALEXANDRINUS: One of the Jewels of the British Library
The Codex Alexandrinus (London, British Library, Royal MS 1. D. V-VIII; Gregory-Aland no. A or 02, Soden δ 4) is a fifth-century Christian manuscript of a Greek Bible, containing the majority of the Greek Old Testament and the Greek New Testament. It is one of the four Great uncial codices.
What Makes the Alexandrian Manuscripts that Make Up All Modern Bibles Superior to the Byzantine Manuscripts of the KJV and NKJV?
In the days of Westcott and Hort, the argument was that the Alexandrian scribes removed what we have in the Byzantine manuscripts, while the other argument was that the Byzantine scribes added and altered. How could we ever solve it once and for all?
NTTC LUKE 12:31: “seeking his kingdom” or “seeking the kingdom of God”
ζητειτε την βασιλειαν αυτου
“seeking his kingdom”
ζητειτε την βασιλειαν του θεου
“seeking the kingdom of God”
NTTC MATTHEW 10:4 Was the Original Reading “Cananaean” or “Cananite?
SERIOUS IMPLICATIONS
If the WH NU reading is correct, then it is possible that this disciple of Jesus was zealous for the law or was “a zealous nationalist prior to his call to follow Jesus.
7Q4 AND 7Q5: Cave 7 of Qumran Dead Sea Manuscripts: Are They Fragments of the Gospel of Mark and 1 Timothy?
WHAT DO WE KNOW?
Some eminent papyrologists, H. Hunger and O. Montevecchi, have affirmed Marcan identification. Still the debate of positive Marcan identification goes on; Some papyrologists argue for it,6 some argue against it, and one scholar has come up with a new identification altogether, namely Zechariah 7:4-5. In addition to proposing Marcan identification for 7Q5, O’Callaghan proposed identification of 1 Timothy 3:16-4:1 for 7Q4.
