EEN NIEUWE STANDAARDTEKST VAN HET NIEUWE TESTAMENT

Abstract

Summary The 26th edition of Nestle's Novum Testamentum Graece may be considered as the new “standard text” for the coming decades. At this occasion, the present article provides a retrospective view of the “old” Nestle and a critical evaluation of the new edition, as well as a series of remarks on recent problems in textual criticism. The “compromise text” prepared by Nestle in 1898 and gradually accepted throughout the world had remained virtually unchanged for eighty years. A thourough revision was needed because of the twentieth century manuscript discoveries, the crisis of the historical theories and the methodological disputes. Even Nestle's critical apparatus, though revised on several occasions, had to be brought up to date. The new text is the result of an international committee discussion, and though it differs from the former editions in hundreds of places, it should not be considered as basically different in textual type. Yet, a slight return to Von Soden and the Textus Receptus is undeniable...