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1 online resource (404 pages) |
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New Testament Tools, Studies and Documents |
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New Testament tools, studies and documents.
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Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Preface; Richard Simon (1638-1712): Sketch of Life & Career; Chapter One. Disproof of Early Heretics' Arguments against the Validity of the Books in the New Testament. Remarks on the Premise Applied by Church Fathers to Prove the Books' Genuineness; Chapter Two. Titles Heading the Gospels and Other Books in the New Testament. Whether the Titles Are by the Authors of those Books or Whether they Were Added; Chapter Three. Books Published in the Name of Jesus Christ and the Apostles. Of Several Forgeries by Early Heretics. Remarks on this Whole Question |
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Chapter Six. In the time of Jesus Christ and the apostles, Jews in the area of Jerusalem spoke Chaldaic or Syriac. Mr Voss's arguments against this view. Clarification of problems pertaining to this questionChapter Seven. The Nazarene sect and their Hebrew or Chaldaic version of the Gospel of St Matthew; Chapter Eight. The Ebionites. Their Version of the Gospel of St Matthew. Other early Heretics who Used this Gospel; Chapter Nine. The Greek text of St Matthew. Its status. Comparison with the Hebrew or Chaldaic text. Rejoinders to Heretics' objections to this gospel |
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Chapter Ten. The dates and order of the Gospels. Greek manuscript copies of St Mark cited in this regard. His Gospel generally believed to be the second. His role as St Peter's interpreterChapter Eleven. In which language did St Mark write his Gospel? The last twelve verses of his Gospel are lacking in several Greek Manuscripts; Chapter Twelve. The Gospel of St Luke. What made him publish it, given the existence of two others published before his. Of Marcion and his text of the Gospel of St Luke. The Catholics also made some alterations to this Gospel |
| Summary |
In Critical History of the Text of the New Testament (1689), 17th century Oratorian Richard Simon (1638-1712), 'father' of modern biblical criticism, surveys the genuineness, authority, and reliability of all then known manuscript and printed sources of the New Testament |
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Chapter Four. The first Fathers did not produce the originals of the New Testament in their disputes with heretics. Discussion of evidence used to show that churches retained such originalsChapter Five. The books of the New Testament starting with the Gospel of St Matthew. The original of this Gospel was written in the Hebrew spoken by the Jews in Jerusalem at that time. Rejoinder to reasons contrary to this view |
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Chapter Thirteen. The Gospel of St John. Heretics by whom it was rejected. Their reasons. Response to those reasons. Discussion of the twelve verses from this Gospel which are absent from some early manuscripts. Several Greek manuscripts cited to overcome this difficulty. Critics who falsely believed that the final chapter of this Gospel is not by St JohnChapter Fourteen. Acts of the Apostles as accepted within the Church. Acts ascribed to other apostles are of doubtful authenticity |
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Chapter Fifteen. St Paul's Epistles in General. Marcion and his text of those Epistles. Forged letters ascribed to St Paul |
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Print version record |
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Bible. New Testament -- Criticism, Textual -- History -- 17th century
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Bible. New Testament. fast (OCoLC)fst01808090 |
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RELIGION -- Biblical Studies -- New Testament.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789004244214 |
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9004244212 |
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