A Brief Bibliography of Critical Editions of New Testament
Versions
This bibliography is still under development. Initial
bibliographic entries are based on entries found in Metzger's
The Early Versions of the New Testament and Ehrman and
Holmes' (eds.) The Text of the New Testament in Contemporary
Research. Send suggestions to
Jimmy Adair.
- Armenian
- The standard 1805 edition by Zohrab (Zohrapean) is of limited
text-critical value.
- Coptic
- Sahidic
- Horner, G. W. The Coptic Version of the New Testament in
the Southern Dialect, Otherwise Called Sahidic and
Thebaic. 7 vols. London: Clarendon, 1911-1924; reprint
ed., Osnabrück: Otto Zeller, 1969.
- Bohairic
- Horner, G. W. The Coptic Version of the New Testament in
the Northern Dialect, Otherwise Called Memphitic and
Bohairic. 4 vols. London: Clarendon, 1898-1905; reprint
ed., Osnabrück: Otto Zeller, 1969.
- Georgian
- Shanidze, A. Two Old Recensions of the Georgian Gospels
According to Three Shatberd Manuscripts (A.D. 897, 936 and
973). Monuments of the Old Georgian Language, no. 2.
Tbilisi, 1945.
- Abuladze, Ilia. Sakme Mocikulta. [The Acts of the
Apostles] Monuments of the Old Georgian Language, no. 7.
Tbilisi, 1949-1950.
- Garitte, Gérard. L'ancienne version
géorgienne des Actes des Apôtres d'après
deux manuscrits du Sinaï. Bibliothèque du
Muséon, no. 38. Louvain: Publications Universitaires,
1955.
- Lortkipanidze, K. K'atolik'e Ep'ist'oleta Kartuli
versiebi. [The Georgian Versions of the Catholic
Epistles] Monuments of the Old Georgian Language, no. 9.
Tbilisi, 1956.
- Imnaishvili, I. Iovanes Gamocxadeba da misi targmaneba:
Dzveli kartuli versia. [The Revelation of John and Its
Commentary: The Old Georgian Version] Works of the Department
of Old Georgian Language, no. 7. Tbilisi, 1961.
- Dzoc'enidze, K., and Danelia, K. P'avles ep'ist'oleta
kartuli versiebi gamosacemad moamzades Keteven Dzoc'enidzem
da K'orneli Daneliam. [The Goergian Versions of the
Epistles of Paul Prepared for Publications by K. Dzoc'enidze
and K. Danelia. Works of the Department of Old Georgian
Language, no. 16. Tbilisi, 1974.
- Latin
- Old Latin
- Vetus Latina: Die Reste der altlateinischen Bibel nach
Petrus Sabatier new gesammelt und herausgegeben von der
Erzabtei Beuron. Beuron, 1949-.
- Vulgate
- Biblia Sacra iuxta Latinam Vulgatam Versionem ad Codicem
Fidem: Iussi Pauli PP. VI cura et studio monachorum abbatiae
pontificiae sancti Hieronymi in urbe ordinis sancti benedicti
edita. Rome: Typis Polyglottis Vaticanis, 1926-.
- Syriac (except Diatessaron)
- General
- Kiraz, George Anton, ed. Comparative Edition of the Syriac
Gospels: Aligning the Sinaiticus, Curetonianus, Peshitta and
Harklean Versions. 4 vols. Leiden: Brill, 1996.
- Old Syriac
- Burkitt, F. C., ed. Evangelion da-Mepharreshe: The
Curetonian Syriac Gospels, with the Readings of the Sinai
palimpsest and the Early Syriac Patristic Evidence. 2
vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1904.
- Lewis, Agnes Smith, ed. The Old Syriac Gospels, or,
Evangelion da-Mepharreshe: Being the Text of the Sinai or
Syro-Antiochene Palimpsest, Including the Latest Additions
and Emendations, with the Variants of the Curetonian Text,
Corroborations from Many Other Ms. London : Williams and
Norgate, 1910.
- Peshitta
- Gwilliam, George Henry, and Pusey, Philip Edward, eds.
Tetraeuangelium sanctum juxta simplicem Syrorum versionem
ad fidem codicum, Massorae, editionum denuo recognitum.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1901.
- Aland, Barbara, and Juckel, A., eds. Das Neue Testament in
Syrischer Überlieferung. Vol. 1: Die grossen
katholischen Briefe. ANTF 7. Berlin and New York: De
Gruyter, 1986.
- Aland, Barbara, and Juckel, A., eds. Das Neue Testament in
Syrischer Überlieferung. Vol. 2: Die Paulinischen
Briefe. Part 1: Römer- und 1. Korintherbrief.
ANTF 7. Berlin and New York: De Gruyter, 1986.
- Philoxenian
- Gwynn, John, ed. The Apocalypse of St. John, in a Syriac
Version Hitherto Unknown. Dublin: Dublin University
Press, 1897.
- Another version of Revelation appears in the Paris Polyglot,
vol. 5.2, 1633.
- Gwynn, John, ed. Remnants of the Later Syriac Versions of
the Bible: In two parts. Part 1: New Testament: The
Four Minor Catholic Epistles in the Original Philoxenian
Version of the Sixth Century, and the History of the Woman
Taken in Adultery. London and Oxford: Williams and
Norgate, for the Text and Translation Society, 1909.
- Harklean
- The Harklean version present in KirazŐs Comparative Edition
of the Syriac Gospels (see above under Syriac: General)
is a fresh collation, though without a critical apparatus.
- Palestinian Syriac
- Lewis, Agnes Smith, and Gibson, Margaret Dunlop. The
Palestinian Syriac Lectionary of the Gospels, Re-edited from
Two Sinai MSS. and from P. de Lagarde's Edition of the
"Evangeliarium Hierosolymitanum." London: K. Paul,
Trench, Trubner & Co., 1899.