文档介绍：THE SCHWEICH LECTURES ON
BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGY, 1932
RECENT DEVELOPMENTS
IN THE
TEXTUAL CRITICISM
OF THE GREEK BIBLE
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RECENT DEVELOPMENTS
IN THE
TEXTUAL CRITICISM
OF THE GREEK BIBLE
BY
FREDERIC G. KENYON, .
Late Director and Principal Librarian
of the British Museum
THE SGHWEIGH LECTURES
OF THE BRITISH ACADEMY
1932
LONDON
PUBLISHED FOR THE BRITISH ACADEMY
BY HUMPHREY MULFORD, OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
AMEN HOUSE, .
1933
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PREFACE
HE special occasion of the course of Schweich Lectures
Tpublished in this volume was the recent discovery of
the Chester Beatty Biblical papyri, which added very largely
to the material available for the textual criticism of the
Greek Bible, and seemed likely to throw valuable light on
the early history of the text. Since the publication of these
papyri must inevitably take some considerable time, the
summary and provisional account of them in the present
volume may be of interest to scholars; but in the main the
lectures were addressed less to specialists than to ordinary
students of the Bible. It seemed a convenient opportunity
to summarize for such students the main results of discovery
and criticism since the publication of Westcott and Hort's
Introduction to their edition of the New Testament (1882),
and Swete's Introduction to the Old Testament in Greek (1900).
Much of the work, therefore, is secondhand, embodying the
results of the work of others, to whom, it is hoped, full
acknowledgement has in all cases been made. In a sense,
the present volume is a supplement to my previous works,
addressed to the same class of readers: The Bible and the
Ancient Manuscripts (1895, 3rd ed., revised, 1898)