RELIGST 2HH3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: First Epistle Of Peter, Papyrus 46, Nile

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELIGST 2HH3
• Professor: Stephen Westerholm

Document Summary

All modern translation translate a text like the standard edition. & diplomatic text- modern reproduction of one of the manuscripts- all these manuscripts are hand-written; when ppl copy text = there is always mistakes; these mistakes are shown in greek manuscripts = they leave out a lot. Therefore scholars instead reproduce an eclectic text- based on the evidence of all the manuscripts available; so doesn"t produce text of a particular manuscript-but based on evidence of all the available manuscripts. Paul"s original text; we just have several copies: papyrus 46- year 200- most recent original manuscript we have of paul"s writings john"s gospel chapter 18. From the year 100-150: the earliest surviving papyrus manuscript of the new testament- has couple of verses from. Evidence for the n. t text: greek manuscripts -this is the most important evidence for getting back to what the original text was.