Since Dirk probably has better things to do than publicize his own book, I’ll take the liberty here to alert our readers of his book coming out next month from Crossway.An Introduction to the Greek New Testament, Produced at Tyndale House, Cambridge
By Dirk Jongkind
Is the New Testament text reliable?
What do we do with textual variants?
How do I use the Greek New Testament?
This short book, written as a companion to The Greek New Testament, Produced at Tyndale House, Cambridge, provides crucial information about the Tyndale House edition in particular and the Greek New Testament in general.
Dirk Jongkind, one of the principal scholars behind this groundbreaking project, answers critical questions for understanding the biblical text so that you can have clarity and confidence as you engage with the New Testament in the original Greek.
Table of Contents:
- Your Greek New Testament and the Manuscripts
- Practicalities
- Manuscripts
- How Decisions Are Made
- Why Not the Textus Receptus?
- Why Not the Byzantine Text?
- Biblical Theology and the Transmission of the Text
- Where to Go from Here?
I really like that Dirk has a chapter on theology. Many of the great text critics of the past included theology in discussions of their method and approach and its nice to see that happening here. You can see the endorsements here. I just pre-ordered mine today. Looking forward to it.
In this book is there anything detailed about Mark 6:22? Are we just not going to talk about that?
ReplyDeleteWe're going to talk about that in the textual commentary.
DeleteHi! Is this book introductory level, for people who have never come across text criticism, or does it go “deeper”?
ReplyDeleteIt starts at point when someone opens a GNT for the first time and takes people gently from there. It is also an explanation of our method (though it leaves it to the informed reader to figure out where we put our unique emphases).
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