Abstract:While lectionaries make up approximately one-third of all surviving biblical Greek manuscripts, they have been largely neglected within the field of textual criticism. This chapter examines why lectionaries, as representatives of the Byzantine text, have been generally ignored by text critics for generations and regarded as inconsequential for textual criticism. While editors of critical editions do not usually state explicitly why they excluded lectionaries, it was likely due to their late date, their perceiv… Show more
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