Johann Jakob Wettstein's Principles for New Testament Textual Criticism : A Fight for Scholarly Freedom /

Johann Jakob Wettstein's Principles for New Testament Textual Criticism : A Fight for Scholarly Freedom /

In Johann Jakob Wettstein's Principles for New Testament Textual Criticism Silvia Castelli investigates the genesis, development, and legacy of Wettstein's criteria for evaluating New Testament variant readings. Wettstein's guidelines, the Animadversiones et cautiones , are the first...

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Main Author: Castelli, Silvia (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 2020.

Series: New Testament Tools, Studies and Documents ; 62.

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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • Part 1 Genesis, Development, and Legacy of Wettstein's Animadversiones
  • Introduction
  • 1 Wettstein, Man and Scholar (1693-1754)
  • 2 Wettstein in Contemporary Text-Critical Scholarship
  • 3 The Contemporary Need for a Careful Reflection on Text-Critical Method
  • 4 Genesis, Research Question and Method
  • 1 The Urge for New Text-Critical Rules in the Early Eighteenth Century: From Clericus's Ars critica to Bengel's "Prodromus"
  • 1.1 From the Renaissance to Clericus
  • 1.2 Mill's New Testament and Its Reception
  • 1.3 Pfaff and von Mastricht
  • 1.4 Wettstein's Dissertatio
  • 1.5 Bentley's Proposals
  • 1.6 Bengel's "Prodromus" and "Notitia"
  • 2 The Two Editions of Wettstein's Text-Critical Principles
  • 2.1 The Context of the Animadversiones in Prolegomena and Novum Testamentum Graecum ( NTG  2)
  • 2.2 Wettstein's Working Tools
  • 2.3 Editorial Changes to the Animadversiones Chapter in Wettstein's NTG  2
  • 2.4 Wettstein's Sources and Their Use
  • 3 Wettstein's Contribution to Text-Critical Theory
  • Table of Wettstein's Nineteen Principles
  • 3.1 Basic Principles: A Fight for Scholarly Freedom
  • 3.2 Internal Criteria
  • 3.3 Relevance of the Indirect Tradition: Fathers and Versions
  • 3.4 External Criteria: Lectio Vetustior Potior and Lectio Plurimum Codicum Potior
  • 3.5 Conclusions
  • 4 The Textual Critic at Work: Between Theory and Practice
  • 4.1 Method
  • 4.2 Preference for the Majority Reading
  • 4.3 Preference for Internal Criteria
  • 4.4 Beyond Text-Critical Rules
  • 4.5 A Thoroughgoing Eclectic Critic?
  • 5 Reception and Legacy of Wettstein's Principles
  • 5.1 Positive Reception: From the First Reviews of Prolegomena to Griesbach
  • 5.2 Less Favourable or Negative Reception: From the Anonymous Pamphlets to Westcott and Hort
  • 5.3 Criticisms to the Genealogical Method and Wettstein's Rediscovery in the Twentieth Century
  • 5.4 Wettstein's Lasting Legacy
  • Summary and Conclusion
  • Desiderata
  • Appendix: Manuscripts Personally Inspected by Wettstein by 1730
  • Part 2 Edition and Translation of Wettstein's Animadversiones
  • Introduction: Editing the Text of Prolegomena 1730
  • 1 The Text
  • 2 Apparatus criticus
  • Conspectus Siglorum
  • Animadversiones et cautiones ad examen variarum lectionum N. T. necessariae
  • Bibliography
  • Index.