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Tischendorf and the Codex Sinaiticus*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 February 2009

Ian A. Moir
Ian A. Moir
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Edinburgh, Scotland
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New Testament Studies , Volume 23 , Issue 1 , October 1976 , pp. 108 - 115
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page 108 note 4 A lecture by Professor Matthew Black of St Andrews on developments since Tischendorf is being published by Glasgow University, and a study by Dr K. Junack of Münster is available in German. See Botschaft und Dienst xxvi, I, Gutersloh (January 1975Google Scholar); Hassold, H. G., Ein Leben für den Bibeltext, pp. 1–6Google Scholar; Junack, K., Handschriften des Neuen Testaments, pp. 7–17Google Scholar, Wie zuverlässig ist der Bibeltext? pp. 18–22.Google Scholar

page 109 note 1 Pap. Oxy. x. 14–16Google Scholar, no. 1228. It was received in Glasgow about the beginning of the century.

page 109 note 2 The Free University of Amsterdam was founded in 1880.

page 109 note 3 For a brief account of the Tischendorf collection's relation to Trinity College, Glasgow see the section by Macintosh, James, the late Librarian of the College, in Trinity College, Glasgow, 1856–1956Google Scholar, Centenary Volume, Mechie, Stewart (ed.) (Glasgow, 1956), pp. 62–4.Google Scholar The niggardly ministerial education policies of the Church of Scotland must bear part of the blame for the financial situation.

page 109 note 4 John Eadie was United Presbyterian Professor of Biblical Literature in Edinburgh and ministered to a Glasgow congregation at the same time. He was one of the 1881 New Testament Revision Committee and is best remembered for his two-volume ‘History of the English Bible’ which appeared in 1876 (Macmillan, London).Google Scholar

page 110 note 1 His first name is said to have been given by his mother in thankfulness that he had not been born blind or deformed. See ‘Tischendorf’ – a memorial article by Gregory, C. R. in Bibliotheca Sacra XXXIII (1876), 154–5.Google Scholar This article is hereafter referred to as ‘Gregory, B.S.’.

page 110 note 2 See Gregory, , B.S., pp. 183–93.Google Scholar

page 110 note 3 See Gregory, , B.S., p. 155.Google Scholar

page 110 note 4 See Theologische Studien und Kritiken, III (1830), 817–45.Google Scholar

page 110 note 5 Canon and Text of the New Testament, English version (Edinburgh, 1908), p. 453.Google Scholar This book is hereafter referred to as ‘Gregory, C.T.’.

page 110 note 6 Gregory, , C.T., pp. 349–50.Google Scholar See Lachmann's, article note (a), p. 832.Google Scholar

page 111 note 1 See Kenyon, F. G., The Text of the Greek Bible (3rd ednLondon, 1975), p. 199.Google Scholar (Revision by A. W. Adams.)

page 111 note 2 See Gregory, , B.S., p. 161.Google Scholar

page 111 note 3 Novum Testamentum e Codice Vatican Graeco 1209 (Codex B) tertia vice phototypice expressum – Introductio (Martini, C. M., Città del Vaticano, 1968).Google Scholar

page 111 note 4 See Gregory, , B.S., p. 178.Google Scholar

page 111 note 5 This item bears the title ‘Lieben und Schweigen’.

page 111 note 6 Liber Psalmorum Hebraicus atque Latinus ab Hieronymo ex Hebraeo Converstus – Consociata Opera Ediderunt Constantinus de Tischendorf, S. Baer, Fr. Delitsch, Lipsiae: Brockhaus, F. A., 1874.Google Scholar

page 111 note 7 See ‘The late Professor Tischendorf’ in The Unitarian Review and Religious Magazine, III, no. 3 (March 1875Google Scholar) by Abbot, Ezra, p. 224.Google Scholar

page 112 note 1 See Gregory, , C.T., p. 456.Google Scholar

page 112 note 2 See Gregory, , C.T., pp. 455–6Google Scholar; Abbot, , p. 218.Google Scholar

page 112 note 3 See Gregory, , C.T., p. 456Google Scholar; Abbot, , p. 219Google Scholar; Gregory, , B.S., pp. 157–8Google Scholar; Milligan, Wm., ‘Tischendorf and Tregelles as editors of the Greek New Testament’, British and Foreign Evangelical Review, xxv, no. 95 (January 1876), pp. 126–8.Google Scholar Jager was a professor at the Sorbonne.

page 112 note 4 See Abbot, , p. 224.Google Scholar

page 112 note 5 See Gregory, , C.T., p. 459.Google Scholar

page 113 note 1 See Gregory, , C.T., p. 459.Google Scholar Contemporary conservative scholars in Britain preferred the 7th edition because it was closer to the Received Text.

page 113 note 2 See Gregory, , C.T., p. 459.Google Scholar

page 113 note 3 See Travels in the East by Tischendorf, , translation from the German by Shuckard, W. E. (London, 1847Google Scholar). Schaff, Philip called T ‘the Columbus of the textual department in the New Testament literature’. A Companion to The Greek Testament and the English Version (London, 1883), pp. 257–8.Google Scholar

page 113 note 4 See In the Shadow of Sinai by Lewis, Agnes Smith (Cambridge, 1898).Google Scholar

page 114 note 1 This story is not mentioned in the item given in note 3, p., 113 but a great deal has been written about it since then. See the reprint of Tischendorf's story, Codex Sinaiticus (London, n.d. [1932?]), pp. 23–4Google Scholar, and most introductions to NT textual criticism. Much material is also contained in the introduction to A Full Collation of the Codex Sinaiticus with the Received Text of the New Testament by Scrivener, F. H. A. (Cambridge, 1864Google Scholar). For a more recent discussion of all the problems relating to the finding of the manuscript see Ševčenko, Ihor, ‘New Documents on Tischendorf and the Codex Sinaiticus’, Scriptorium, XVIII (1964), 55–80.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

page 114 note 2 See items in the previous note and also letter by Hort, F. J. A. in The GuardianGoogle Scholar for 13 August 1862 and a reply by C. Simonides in the issue of 3 September 1862 of the same journal.

page 114 note 3 The two manuscripts lie side by side in a special case in the MS display room of the museum. At the time of the transfer of Codex Sinaiticus to London a detailed study of the MS was undertaken and the results were subsequently published in Scribes and Correctors of the Codex Sinaiticus by Milne, H. J. M. and Skeat, T. C. (London, 1938Google Scholar). It is understood that a revision of this work is in progress.

page 114 note 4 About the time Sinaiticus was discovered the practice initiated by Wetstein of referring to uncial MSS by English and Greek letters had almost exhausted the Greek alphabet and according to Kenyon (Our Bible and the Ancient Manuscripts, 5 edn revised Adams, A. W., p. 191Google Scholar) Tischendorf designated his new find with the Hebrew Aleph (N) and this sign has been associated with it ever since. Gregory's numerical series numbers it oi while in many places it is referred to as ‘S’. This involves some danger of confusion with the Vatican MS S(028), unless, like Merk, one uses only the number for 028.

page 114 note 5 The data are derived from a collation specially made for this paper.

page 114 note 6 See Gregory, , B.S., pp. 182–3.Google Scholar

page 115 note 1 Novum Testamentum Graece, Lipsiae, MDCCCXLI, Sumptus fecit C.F. Koehler.Google Scholar

page 115 note 2 See Interpreting the New Testament, 1900–1950 (London, 1951), p. 17.Google Scholar

page 115 note 3 See ‘The Twentieth Century Interlude in New Testament Textual Criticism’ in J.B.L. XCIII, 3 (September 1974), 386–414 (W. H. P. Hatch Memorial Lecture).Google Scholar