New Testament Background Production and Canon. Contents ❖ Biography ❖ History ❖ Epistles ❖ Apocalypse.

New Testament New Testament BackgroundBackground

Production and CanonProduction and Canon

Contents

❖ Biography

❖ History

❖ Epistles

❖ Apocalypse

P52P52John 18:31–33, 37–38John 18:31–33, 37–38

125 AD125 AD

PapyrusPapyrus

PapyrusPapyrus

P46P46200 AD200 AD

Hebrews 2:5Hebrews 2:5

Uncials/MajusculesUncials/MajusculesSinaiticus: Fourth CenturySinaiticus: Fourth Centurywww.codexsinaiticus.orgwww.codexsinaiticus.org

VaticanusVaticanusMiddle of the Fourth CenturyMiddle of the Fourth Century

MinusculeMinuscule9th –16th centuries9th –16th centuries

Manuscripts - 5700❖ Papyri - (125 to 300 AD) 120

❖ Uncials/Majuscules - (300 to 800 AD) 310

❖ Minuscules - (800 to 1500 AD) 2877

❖ Lectionaries - (500 to 1600) 2432

❖ Versions (100–900 AD)

❖ Citations by Church Fathers (200–500)

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Transcription Errors✤ Unintentional

• Eye

• Ear

✤ Intentional

• Spelling or Grammar

• Historical difficulty

• Harmonizing

• Complements

• Doctrine

Deciding Between Variants

❖ External

• Date and Character of Witness

❖ Internal

• Scribal

• more difficult

• shorter

• Book

• author’s style

• immediate context

Implications for Trusting Scripture

❖ number

❖ time

❖ spread

❖ character

❖ science

Bibliography❖ Aland, Kurt and Barbara Aland. The Text of the New Testament.

Rev. ed. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1989.

❖ Metzger, Bruce M. and Bart D. Ehrman. The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption, and Restoration. 4th ed. Oxford University Press, 2005.