THE ECUMENICAL PATRIARCHATE’S 1904 NEW TESTAMENT EDITION AND FUTURE PERSPECTIVES*
THE ECUMENICAL PATRIARCHATE’S 1904 NEW TESTAMENT EDITION AND FUTURE PERSPECTIVES*

Summary/Abstract: This article presents the Patriarchal edition of the New Testament of 1904, based upon the text of 116 manuscripts of lectionaries used in the Greek-speaking churches through the centuries. The article describes the non-use or very limited use of lectionaries in Western critical editions of the New Testament till the end of the 19th century - compared with this the Patriarchal edition has to be considered as an important scholarly achievement. The second part of the article deals with more recent attempts to edit the so called Byzantine text and postulates the principles that should guide a new edition of the Patriarchal text on the basis of new achievements in textual criticism.

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