Johann Jakob Wettstein’s Principles for New Testament Textual Criticism

Silvia Castelli, Ph.D. (2001, University of Turin, Italy; 2019, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands) is Researcher at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society. She has published a monograph and several articles, notably on Flavius Josephus and his reception.

• AcknowledgementsPart 1 Genesis, Development, and Legacy of Wettstein’s AnimadversionesIntroduction1 Wettstein, Man and Scholar (1693–1754)2 Wettstein in Contemporary Text-Critical Scholarship3 The Contemporary Need for a Careful Reflection on Text-Critical Method4 Genesis of the Present Investigation, Research Question, and Method1 The Development of New Text-Critical Rules in the Early Eighteenth Century: From Clericus’s Ars critica to Bengel’s Prodromus1.1 From the Renaissance to Clericus1.2 Mill’s New Testament and Its Reception1.3 Pfaff and von Mastricht1.4 Wettstein’s Dissertatio1.5 Bentley’s Proposals1.6 Bengel’s Prodromus and “Notitia”2 The Two Editions of Wettstein’s Text-Critical Principles2.1 The Context of the Animadversiones in Prolegomena and Novum Testamentum Graecum (NTG 2)2.2 Wettstein’s Working Tools2.3 Editorial Changes to the Animadversiones Chapter in NTG 22.4 Wettstein’s Sources and Their Use3 Wettstein’s Contribution to Text-Critical MethodologyTable of Wettstein’s Nineteen Principles3.1 Basic Principles: A Fight for Scholarly Freedom3.2 Internal Criteria3.3 Relevance of the Indirect Tradition: Fathers and Versions3.4 External Criteria: Lectio Vetustior Potior and Lectio Plurium Codicum Potior3.5 Conclusions4 The Textual Critic at Work: Between Theory and Practice4.1 Method4.2 Preference for the Majority Reading4.3 Preference for Internal Criteria4.4 Beyond Text-Critical Rules4.5 A Thoroughgoing Eclectic Critic?5 Reception and Legacy of Wettstein’s Principles5.1 Positive Reception: From the First Reviews of Prolegomena to Griesbach5.2 Less Favourable or Negative Reception: From the Anonymous Pamphlets to Westcott and Hort5.3 Criticisms of the Genealogical Method and Wettstein’s Rediscovery in the Twentieth Century5.4 Wettstein’s Lasting LegacySummary and ConclusionsDesiderataAppendix: Manuscripts Personally Inspected by Wettstein by 1730Part 2 Edition and Translation of Wettstein’s AnimadversionesIntroduction: Editing the Text of Prolegomena 17301 The Text2 Apparatus criticusConspectus SiglorumAnimadversiones et cautiones ad examen variarum lectionum N. T. necessariaeBibliographyIndex of Ancient AuthorsIndex of Modern AuthorsIndex of ManuscriptsIndex of SourcesIndex of Subjects