The Editio Critica Maior of the Greek New Testament

Abstract

Where a licence is displayed above, please note the terms and conditions of the licence govern your use of this document.When citing, please reference the published version. Take down policyWhile the University of Birmingham exercises care and attention in making items available there are rare occasions when an item has been uploaded in error or has been deemed to be commercially or otherwise sensitive.

Paratexts Seeking Understanding: Manuscripts and Aesthetic Cognitivism

“…Manuscripts have at times been treated only as abstract textual vehicles, not concrete physical objects. Important text critical work on the New Testament continues, especially in the form of the Editio Critica Maior (ECM) projects (Houghton et al 2020), but attention is also turning to examining the significance of manuscript features for a range of historical and literary questions. 4 New Philology and cognate methods take a text's material context seriously, seeking to understand the ways that manuscript features influence reception of a text and how it is interpreted, transmitted, and conceptualized in its different contexts of production.…”

You’re Collating Just Fine and Other Lies You’ve Been Telling Yourself

“…Greek New Testament and the Editio Critica Maior built their research and apparatuses with the help of semi-automated software after carrying out complete transcriptions of witnesses (Houghton et al 2020). §52 Bordalejo has before described the Editio Critica Maior as a born-digital printed edition, in reference to the techniques used in its construction and as an example of how similar digital textual critical tools are to their analogue counterparts, despite their speed and higher accuracy (Bordalejo 2013, 65n).…”