One of the purposes of the CNTR is to apply a purely scientific approach to the age-old question, What was the original text of the New Testament. Many other somewhat later manuscripts have also been found there. Welcome to the Center for New Testament Restoration (CNTR): Bringing scientific textual criticism to the masses. In fact, more than half of our very earliest manuscripts (all Papyri save for one “Majuscule” which is on Parchment) were found in the ancient town of Oxyrhynchus 3. Our extant papyri manuscripts have only survived when preserved in very specific conditions.Īs a result, nearly all biblical Papyri extant today were discovered in Egypt, a land which naturally provides the arid environment optimal for preserving such material. Frequent wetting and drying or exposure to moisture quickly destroys the material, and insects such as white ants eat papyrus. Papyri is a durable material when first produced, but ill equipped to survive the depredations of two millennia.
Prior to the third century, all writing was done on papyrus, which was used exclusively prior to the beginning of the third century (by the fourth century, papyrus was beginning to be eclipsed by parchment 1). The theme for this inaugural meeting is Pen, Print, & Pixels and will feature plenary presentations throughout each day with optional breakout sessions. Their central task is to research the textual history of the New Testament and. On 19 (Thursday & Friday), the Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts (CSNTM) will host a gathering of scholars near Dallas, Texas. This is fortunate for us due to the manner in which our earliest manuscripts have come to us. This is the webpage for the Institute for New Testament Textual Research (INTF). Additionally, New Testament manuscripts are noted for demonstrating a strong “tenacity,” which is to say, once a reading enters into the textual tradition, it remains there 1. (For instance, the text of a third century manuscript of the gospels, P 75, is virtually identical to that in the fourth century Codex Vaticanus.)įortunately, prior to the Constantinian period (4th century), there were no centralized mass-productions of manuscripts that might have allowed these new readings to effectively erase the originals. Naturally, all this has resulted in a number of “Textual families”-unique readings common to certain lines of transmission-which can still be found in the manuscripts we possess.
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Few of the early copyists were professional scribes and those who were could not often have produced a copy of any Christian text openly In the first centuries of the church, there was no single center of production, no controlled distribution or transmission, nor were there any scriptoriums available to Christians for mass production. This bibliography is a comprehensive listing of books, facsimiles, collations and articles relating to some 3,500 Greek New Testament manuscripts, including.
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