Textology of the New Testament. Handwritten tradition, the occurrence of distortions and the reconstruction of the original

The book of the outstanding modern biblical Bruce Metzger has been a fundamental study of the handwritten tradition and transmit the text of the New Testament for almost half a century. This publication, processed and supplemented, prepared in collaboration with the famous American theologian Bart D. Erman, covers the latest achievements in the field of New Testament textology. It briefly describes the long -known and re -open manuscripts, given theoretical justification and practical examples of textual analysis of discrepancies in these manuscripts. The authors refer to more than 300 books and articles relating to Greek manuscripts, early translations and scientific research of the sources of the New Testament text, consider various textological problems and give an objective assessment to some textological scientific schools.
2nd edition, processed and supplemented