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The Text of Acts in the Light of Two Recent Studies*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 February 2009

J. K. Elliott
J. K. Elliott
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Leeds, England
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The variants found in the Greek text of Acts that are included in this paper have been selected for three reasons: 1) They all contain readings which have the combined support of the Byzantine majority text and papyri. These have been taken from the lists to be found in Harry A. Sturz, The Byzantine Text-Type and New Testament Textual Criticism (Nashville, Camden, New York: Thomas Nelson, 1984). 2) They have a bearing on a recent study of Acts by M-E. Boismard and A. Lamouille, Le Texte Occidentale des Actes des Apôtres: Reconstruction et Réhabilitation (Paris: 1984), to be referred to hereafter as B + L. In their work B + L print as Lucan two versions of Acts, the Alexandrian (TA) and the Western (TO). 3) They show differing types of scribal emendation.

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New Testament Studies , Volume 34 , Issue 2 , April 1988 , pp. 250 - 258
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1988

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NOTES

[1] See my review in NovT 28 (1986) 282–4.Google Scholar

[2] See my review in NovT 29 (1987) 285–8.Google Scholar

[3] Metzger, B. M., A Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament (London and New York: United Bible Societies 1971).Google Scholar

[4] Cf. also Rom 5. 15; 1 Cor 1. 4; 3. 10; 15. 10 bis, 57; 2 Cor 6. 1; 8. 1; 9. 14; Col 1. 16; Eph 3. 2, 7; Tit 2. 11; Heb 12. 15; 1 Pet 4. 10; 5. 16; Jude 4.

[5] The v.ll. at Gal 1. 6 (εν χαριτι: + χριστου, + ιησου χριστου, + θεου; om.) require resolution in the light of Gal 2. 21 την χαριν τον θεεον and of the repetition of the name χριστος in 1. 6–10.

[6] Here του κυριου probably belongs to the preceding κρατος but note here the changes in word order in some mss. and also the v.l. κρατος/πιστις.

[7] ‘An Eclectic Study of the Text of Acts’ in Biblical and Patristic Studies in Memory of Robert Pierce Casey (ed. Birdsall, J. N. and Thomson, R. W.) (Freiburg: Herder, 1963) 64–77 esp. p. 75.Google Scholar

[8] ‘Κηϕας: Σιμων Πετρος: ο Πετρος: An Examination of New Testament Usage’, NovT 14 (1972) 241–56.Google Scholar

[9] E.g. Kilpatrick, G. D., ‘Atticism and the Text of the Greek New Testament’ in Neutestamentliche Aufsätze ed. Blinzler, J., O. Kuss & F. Mussner (Regensburg, 1963) 125–37.Google Scholar

[10] In Bekker, I., Harpocration et Moeris (Berlin: Reimerus, 1883) § 197.32.Google Scholar

[11] In Rutherford, W. S., The New Phrynichus (London: Macmillan, 1881) §240.4.Google Scholar

[12] Bekker §197.34.