Text of the New Testament in Contemporary Research

Bart D. Ehrman is the James A. Gray Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has written or edited twenty-six books, including four NY Times bestsellers; his books are translated into twenty-seven languages.Michael W. Holmes, University Professor of Biblical Studies & Early Christianity at Bethel University, has authored or edited eleven books and numerous essays and articles, including The Apostolic Fathers: Greek Texts and English Translations and The Greek New Testament: SBL Edition.

'For students interested in NT textual criticism, there is no better volume for understanding the modern state of the study of this discipline." – Nijay K. Gupta, George Fox Evangelical Seminary, in: Religious Studies Review 41/3 (September 2015)"I have enjoyed dipping into it so far and congratulate the editors and the other contributors on this achievement. If you want to know the state of the question on any of the following topics then this is the place to look." – Peter Head [Full review]"This book is one of the most important books on textual criticism that has been published in years. ... The esteemed editors, Michael W. Holmes and Bart D. Ehrman, are to be congratulated once again for putting together a fine volume, in a fine series, published by a leading publisher in the field. Indeed, this book deserves a spot on the shelf of every New Testament scholar." – Brice C. Jones [Full review]

• 1. The Papyrus Manuscripts of the New Testament Eldon Jay Epp2. The Majuscule Manuscripts of the New TestamentDavid C. Parker3. The Greek Minuscules of the New TestamentBarbara Aland and Klaus Wachtel4. The Greek Lectionaries of the New TestamentCarroll Osburn5. The Diatessaron of TatianUlrich B. Schmid6. The Syriac Versions of the New TestamentPeter J. Williams7. The Latin Version of the New TestamentPhilip Burton8. The Coptic Versions of the New Testament Christian Askeland9. The Ethiopic Version of the New TestamentRochus Zuurmond revised by Curt Niccum10. The Armenian Version of the New TestamentS. Peter Cowe11. The Georgian Version of the New TestamentJeff W. Childers12. The Gothic Version of the New TestamentCarla Falluomini13. The Use of the Greek Fathers for New Testament Textual CriticismGordon D. Fee and Roderic L. Mullen14. The Use of the Latin Fathers for New Testament Textual CriticismH.A.G. Houghton15. The Use of the Syriac Fathers for New Testament Textual CriticismSebastian Brock 16. Additional Greek Witnesses to the New Testament (Ostraca, Amulets, Inscriptions and other sources)Peter M. Head17. Scribal Tendencies in the Transmission of the Text of the New TestamentJames R. Royse18. The Social History of Early Christian ScribesKim Haines-Eitzen19. Analyzing and Categorizing New Testament Greek ManuscriptsThomas C. Geer, Jr. revised by Jean-François Racine20. Textual Clusters: Their Past and Future in New Testament Textual CriticismEldon Jay Epp21. Criteria For Evaluating Readings in New Testament Textual CriticismTommy Wasserman 22. Conjectural Emendation and the Text of the New TestamentJan Krans23. From “Original Text” to “Initial Text”: the Traditional Goal of New Testament Textual Criticism in Contemporary DiscussionMichael W. Holmes24. Modern Critical Editions and Apparatuses of the Greek New TestamentJuan Hernández Jr.25. The Majority Text Theory: History, Methods, and Critique Daniel B. Wallace26. Thoroughgoing Eclecticism in New Testament Textual CriticismJ. Keith Elliott27. Reasoned Eclecticism in New Testament Textual CriticismMichael W. Holmes28. The Text as Window: New Testament Manuscripts and the Social History of Early ChristianityBart D. Ehrman