A Comprehensive, Annotated Bibliography of Biblical Textual Criticism

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1. General Information on Textual Criticism
   • Introductions and Handbooks to Textual Criticism (some general & all biblical)
   • Sections within Larger Works (inc. encyclopedia articles)
   • Book series and journals focused on textual criticism
   • Electronic resources (Computer Programs, Discussion Groups and Mailing Lists, Gopher and WWW Sites)
2. History of Textual Criticism
   • Classic Texts
     • Classical (only if influential in biblical t-c, e.g., Aristotle?)
     • Patristic
     • Rabbinic
   • Surveys of Historical Periods (Diachronic)
   • The Current State of the Discipline (Synchronic)
3. Terminology
4. Methodology
   • Primary Witnesses
   • Secondary and Tertiary Witnesses
     • Translation Technique
     • Retroversion
5. Commentaries that Put an Emphasis on Textual Criticism
   • Textual Commentaries
   • Torah
   • Prophets
   • Writings
   • Deuterocanonicals/Apocrypha
   • Gospels and Acts
   • Epistles and Revelation
6. Critical Editions (identify as diplomatic or eclectic)
   • Hebrew
     • Manuscripts from the Judaean Desert
     • Masoretic Manuscripts
   • Greek
     • Septuagint
     • Other Greek Translations of OT
     • Greek NT
   • Syriac
     • Old Syriac
     • Peshitta
     • Harclean/Philoxenian
     • Diatessaron
7. Bibliographies

   
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