Textual Criticism of the Greek Bible. Schweich Lecture for 1932 – Frederic G. Kenyon

Today’s free book is Frederic G. Kenyon’s 1932 Schweich Lectures on Developments in the Textual Criticism of the Greek Bible. This title entered the public domain on the 1st January 2023.

Frederic George Kenyon [1863-1952], Recent Developments in the Textual Criticism of the Greek Bible. The Schweich Lectures of the British Academy 1932. London: The British Academy, 1933. Hbk. pp.119. [Click here to visit the download page for this title]

Table of Contents

• Preface

1. Westcott and Hort and the Revised Version
2. The Discoveries of Fifty Years
   1. The Sinaitic Syriac
   2. Family 1 and Family 13
   3. The Washington Manuscript of the Gospels (W)
   4. The Washington Manuscript of the Pauline Epistles (I)
   5. The Koridethi Gospels (Θ)
   6. Other Vellum Manuscripts
   7. Papyrus Fragments
   8. The Coptic Versions
   9. The Latin Versions
   10. The Fathers
3. Developments in Textual Theory
   1. Von Soden’ s Edition
   2. The Caesarean Text
4. The Chester Beatty Papyri
5. Results and Speculations
6. The Greek Old Testament
   1. The Freer MSS.
   2. The Heidelberg Papyrus
   3. The Berlin Genesis
   4. The Chester Beatty Papyri
   5. Minor Papyrus Manuscripts and Fragments
   6. The Coptic Versions: Genesis; Numbers; Deuteronomy; Joshua; Psalm; Esther;The Major Prophets; Minor Prophets; Sapiential Books

• Index

Main image: Fragments of P. Chester Beatty VI showing portions of Deuteronomy. Source: Wikipedia