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http://prinj.wordpress.com/

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Eng_emad_atef@yahoo.com

[] 2

Textual Criticism 3

Brian J. Wright and Tim Ricchuiti, Dallas Theological Seminary,

published in Journal of Theological Studies, NS, Vol. 62, Pt 2, October
2011.

1

C ": "

2 .
3 Textual Criticism Of the Hebrew Bible, p. 1
"

"
Oxford Handbook of Biblical Studies, p.582, ed. By: J.W.Rogerson, Judith M. Lieu" :

[ ] .
...
Frederic G. Kenyon Handbook to the Textual Criticism of the New
:Testament p.2
" []

" . . "

" " 11

........

" ": "

( .59-57).

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[] Reception History4 History of interpretation (

) [] 5
( Anarthrous Nominative Singular7 (AnNS))6 [
] .
:
( )1

[ ]

( )2 []
c 1:1.

4 . "

() ..... [ ]
... " .
" (.)
5 "" ( ) noute

) (

(.)

Nominative ( ): 6 "" ( :

8 ) "( " :

: )14

"" ().

Anarthrous Nominative Singular 7

) (AnNS anarthrous The Basics of New

Testament Syntax. By Daniel B. Wallace, p.115 ()

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11

: ) 12

.10& 9

For a survey of scholarly opinion, see Bruce M.

Metzger, The Early Versions of the New

Testament: Their Origins, Transmission, and

Limitations (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1977), P.
127; Arthur Vbus, Early Versions of the New
Testament: Manuscript Studies (Stockholm:
paper of Estonian Theological Society in Exile,
1954), pp. 219-21; and Helmut Koester,

Introduction to the New Testament, 2nd edn.,

Vol. 2: History and Literature of Early
Christianity (New York: Walter de
Gruyter,1995), p. 35. Frederik Wisse (the Coptic
Versions of the New Testament, in the Text of
the New Testament in Contemporary Reasearch:
Essays on the Status Quaestionis] Grand Rapids,
MI: Erdmans, 1995[ , pp. 134-6) updates the
discussion and sees a three-stage development in
the third century.
9
So Vbus, Early Versions, p. 227; Koester,
History and Literature, p. 35; and Wisse Coptic
Versions, p.127.
11 " "

"4 66
75

" " 17

.
.

" 18-17

"
-1 : :

. [
]

:
.


-2 :

"()
11
Vbus, Early Versions, p. 225. With the

( obvious Linguistic caveats in mind

, see J. Martin )
Plumley, limitations of Coptic (sahidic) in
Representing Greek, in Metzger , The Early
Versions of the New Testament, pp. 141-52. For
caution in scholarly usage of Coptic manuscripts
for textual criticism, see Christian Askeland,
Has the Coptic Tradition Been Properly Used in
New Testament Textual Criticism? (Paper
presented at the annual meeting of SBL, Boston,
MA, 22 Nov. 2008) and Peter J. Williams, On
the representation of sahidic within the
Apparatus of the Nestle-Aland Novum

Testamentum Graece, Journal of Coptic Studies

8 (2006), pp. 123-5.
12
Wisse, Coptic Versions,p.132
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vorlage

)4:2 " :Layton

Noute ( )

[]16

[] Noute

13

[ ]

Noute
[] (

[ ]

43:7 .)4:4

" Noute P

[]" 14

Pnoute

17
)1( :

toujours .15"

.
12 Noute
2 ( 21:1 )7:16

" []"
[ 4] ( 35:10
4:8 5:8

13 :

( .)
14
Bentley Layton, A Coptic Grammar: Sahidic
Dialect (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2000), P. 39.
15
The author understands in sense of
the God of the Jews and Christians (dans le sens
du Judasme ET du Christianisme). Werner
Vycichl, Dictionnaire tymologique de la langue
copte (Leuven: Peeters, 1984) p.145

[] )2(
[ ] ( )
c1:1

[ ]

.c1:1
.1

18

16
noute
[ :] [ Mmact noute]
( 31:1 )
[] [ Tmntref]m]e noute]

5:6
7-6:1 3:1 ( 3:11)
17
(.)
18
For Greek New Testament, Accordance 8.4.6
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noute .

[] [ 6:28]

[ ]

.19300

[ ]300 %10

20

noute

(AnNS) [ 4]

[] .

[ ] noute

[ ] : 1:1

6:8 6:4 4:2

[ ]

with Bibleworks 8.For the Sahidic Coptic

version, we examined The Coptic Version of the

New Testament in the Southern Dialect,

Otherwise called Sahidic and Thebaic, with
Critical Apparatus, Literal English Coptic
Translation, Register of Fragments and Estimate
;of the Version, ed. George W. Honer (7 vol.
Oxford Claredon Press, 1911-24); Hans Quecke,
Das Johannesevangelium sadsch: Text der
Handschrift PPalau Rib. Inv-Nr. 183Mit den
Varianten der Handschriften 813 und 814 der
Chester Beatty Library und der Handschrift
M569(Barcelona: Papyrologica Castroctaviana,
1984); The Dialect, ed. Herbert Thompson
(Cambridge, 1932); David Kneip, The Text of
Romans in Sahidic Coptic (MDiv. Thesis,
Abilene Christian University, 2004); and the
Sahidic 2010 Text complied by J. Warren Wells,
available at http://sahidica.warpco.com/
19 The 27Th edition of Nestle-Aland Text

)Text (NA27

319 287

[ Westcott-Hort

] 296 279 .

) [ Textus Receptus (TR

] 316 291.

21 1

[]
.21

.
AnNS
[]:
( P46 ) (22 )(23A
)

(24B

D/05

(25C

(26

)
21

Karleinz Schssler examines the vagaries of

such a study (i.e. moving between modern
eclectic texts and ancient MSS) for Gospel of
John in particular (some Pecularities of Coptic
(Sahidic) Translation of the Gospel of John,
)Journal of Coptic Studies 10 ]2008[ , pp.41-62
22 ()
A 23 ()
B 24 ()

C 25 ()

D/05 26 Dea ()
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Robinson-Pierpont 29Majority

28

.text 31

][

[] [] B

[ (.])1

[]
( )
.
.

[]
[]
.
[] 21 31
.30 ( )10

D/06 27 Dp
()

28

The New Testament in The Original Greek:

Byzantine Text form, Compiled and arranged by
Maurice A. Robinson and William G. Pierpont
(Southborough, MA: Hilton Book Publishing,
)2005

29 Majority text

Textus Receptus
().

31 28:21 1:1 8:15

33:8 5:9 7:3 64:8

3:1 21 16:11 4:3 .7:21

( )4 (

) .

( 6:28

noute )
[ ]
.
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31

P46

D/05

)1(

D/06

R-P
Byz.

32:22

AnNS

ART

AnNS

ART

27:12

ART

ART AnNS

ART AnNS

ART

32:12

Lacks

Lacks

ART

Lacks

38:20

AnNS

AnNS AnNS

AnNS

1:1

AnNS

AnNS AnNS

AnNS AnNS

18:1

AnNS

Lacks AnNS

AnNS

Lacks

AnNS
AnNS

AnNS
Lacks

54:8

AnNS

AnNS AnNS

AnNS AnNS

AnNS

8:15

AnNS

AnNS AnNS

AnNS AnNS

AnNS

33:8

AnNS

AnNS AnNS

AnNS

AnNS

AnNS

5:9 AnNS

AnNS

AnNS AnNS

AnNS

AnNS

AnNS

7:3 1 AnNS

AnNS

AnNS AnNS

AnNS

AnNS

AnNS

4:8 1 AnNS

AnNS

AnNS AnNS

AnNS

AnNS

6:8 1 AnNS

AnNS

AnNS AnNS

AnNS

AnNS

3:1 2 AnNS

AnNS

AnNS AnNS

AnNS

AnNS

AnNS

21:1 2 AnNS

AnNS

AnNS AnNS

AnNS

AnNS

AnNS

5:5 2 AnNS

AnNS

AnNS

AnNS

AnNS

AnNS

: 31

. "Articular : ART

Anarathrous Nominative Singular :AnNS


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AnNS

AnNS

AnNS

AnNS

AnNS

16:6 2 AnNS

AnNS

AnNS

AnNS

AnNS

AnNS

ART

ART

ART AnNS

AnNS

AnNS

AnNS

7:6 AnNS

AnNS

AnNS AnNS

AnNS

AnNS

AnNS

6:4 AnNS

AnNS

AnNS AnNS

AnNS

AnNS

AnNS

AnNS

AnNS AnNS

AnNS

AnNS

ART

6:2

13:2

corrected
to AnNS
5:2 1

AnNS

AnNS AnNS

4:2 2

AnNS

5:2 1
16:3 1

AnNS

AnNS

AnNS AnNS

AnNS

AnNS

AnNS

AnNS

AnNS

AnNS

Lacks

Lacks

Lacks

Lacks

AnNS

corrected corrected

corrected

corrected

to AnNS

to AnNS

to AnNS
4:3 AnNS

AnNS

16:11 AnNS AnNS

AnNS AnNS
AnNS

AnNS

AnNS
AnNS

4:11

AnNS

3:21

Lacks AnNS

Lacks

AnNS AnNS

AnNS

7:21

70

to AnNS

AnNS

ART

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82:82

88:2

8 8:3

6:7

3 2:8

3:3

2:5

8 83:3

7:6

6:8

32:3

3 6:8

8 2:2

38:8

37:33

26:2

3 6:2

8 35:2

3 2:8

8:83

2:32

3 7:2

8 37:7

8 6:8

83:6

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32:12 .

" !"
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" . ."
268-264 " 23

"

""( .)

. . "
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Theological
Inquiry

http://atijournal.org/Vol3No1.htm "

[]

18:1 [] "
" " "" . .
" .

"
"

" " "

[]

"

""
""

"" "":

.
33 18:1 54:8

[ 18:1] A Majority Text

[] "" [ ] "" .

P75 []

" " [

: ] [
] []
(

[ : ]
[] 54:8 [ ]

( P66 [ L ])

32 " 18:1
" King James KJV
New King James Version NKJV BBE

P66 : " P75 "

NET " " " NIV "
NASB " " NRSV "
" ESV" " "NLT
()
"MSG
:
http://net.bible.org/#!bible/John+1:14
-1

-2
http://www.arabchurch.com/ArabicBible/gn
a/John/1

" : "
-3

. 74
" : " .
-4
(Jesus as : A Textual

) Examination 18-12

" 18
" "

18:1

"

http://bible.org/assets/powerpoint/wright_j
esusasgod.pdf
Putting Jesus in His place: The Case
-5
For the Deity Of Christ by Robert M.
Bowman Jr. and J. Ed Komoszewski,
Page141, Footnote no. 14, p.328
" [] "
-6
" A Critique of Bart
Ehrmans The orthodox Corruption of
Scripture . Stratton L.

Ladewig

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)Noute
[ .]A

[ ] 25

()

[ ]

[] .noute

32:22 27:12

. ()2
.1

6:2 .11:4

[] Noute

.38

) (case form

[ P46 ]D/06 D/05 C B

[ :Noute]

.28:6

ou [ ] Noute

[] A 3:21

. [ ]

16:3

37 Noute/

[]
.
TR 34 Textus Receptus

" " ()
[]

KJV

Ea 35 07 ()

W 36 032 ()

"" (
37

) "

" ": 21

...... 16:3

"" "" "

" :

" ( ) " "

" NET : NIV

NASB ESV MSG NRSV BBE ""
NLT : "" NKJV :
KJV ( .)

: the Letter
Of Peter To Philip the First
Revelation Of James the Gospel of
Judas the Gospel of Thomas
the Book Of Allogenes

[ )Egerton Papyrus 2( :2
] The Unknown Gospel

Other Unidentified

38

)1( :

[] )2( .
[] .

"/" .
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(i.e. P.Vindob.G 2325, P.Mert. Gospel Fragments

51, P.Oxy. 210, P.Oxy.1224, POxy.840, and

P.Berol. 11710)39
Noute ] [
)) 3( (

) 1( :
) 2( . Stylistic marker

)) (3(. ( )
( Coptic Syntax)
) 4( .

Definite :] [
Qualitative Indefinite
God " [ ] ":
.") " ( a god ""

39

Cf. Andrew E. Bernhard, Other Early Christian

Gospels: A Critical Edition of the Surviving Greek
Manuscripts (New York: T& T Clark, 2007); April D.
DeConick, The Original Gospel of Thomas in

Translation: with a Commentary and New English

Translation of the Complete Gospel (New York: T& T
Clark, 2006); Uwe-Karsten Plisch, The Gospel of
Thomas: Original Text with Commentary (Stuttgart:
Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 2008).
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( :)3 Noute

noute

1:1

nennoute

6:28

ounoute

1 6:8

ounoute

40

6:4

ounoute

2 4:2

ounoute

41 ""
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25

( .)%84 :25/21

" []" ( .41)%80 :25/20

[ ] "" aukloole a cloud

. "" the cloud

etekloole "" the

cloud

.tekkloole

[]
[]
[] [

[] .42

].

noute "

[]

[ Narrative text] 1:1

[ ]

.6:28

. noute

] "
[ ]
".

[ 1:1 ]

( )

:Narrative (
) []

Unknown [] entity
.Known Layton

[ ]noute

[ ] .

[ ]
.

[ ] "

" [ ]
"" .P]aje 44the Word
[ ] "" the Word

[ .]

.6:28

pnoute
.

41 1:1 18:1 5:9 1 .

4:8 2 4:2.

42 25
[ ]

" "

[ ] 6:8 1 : .6:4

noute

"" ( Functions Numerically

" " "
... ").

43

Bentley Layton, Coptic in 20 Lessons (Leuven:

Peeters, 2007), p.15.
44
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(
) ().

38 )508, 561, 600

Narrative

Lectionaries

stylistic solution . [

.45

()

( 1:1

.)6:28
.

.b [ ]

( 1 6:8 6:4 2 )4:2

. 25 [

(sa 505, 506, :

3

. []
.
.c ( ):
pnoute

]21
[]

. pnoute

.
[

assumptions
.

[ ] vorlage

vorlage
[] .

[] .

182
. 5

-1 1:1

auw neunoute pe p]aje
And the Word was (a) god

Laytons sixth pattern for nominal sentence

( pe ) (Entity Term pe
.Entity Term) 46,47 [ ] " (

) Predicate Subject
45

Shssler, Some Pecularities. p.42. His recent MS

calculations helps explain the now 1057 Coptic
citations of Johns gospel in 27th edition of the NestleAland Novum Testamentum Graece (Askeland,
)Coptic Tradition,p.1
46
Layton, A Coptic Grammar, 268
47
""
( )

"" (.)
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1 -3 6:8 6:4

" .

( )4-1:1

[ ] p]aje .

ounoute

() Lambdin
. [] "

pe te ne
[ ] .......

" .48
[]

noute [] . p]aje


.c1:1
-2 6:28

pejau je ounoute pe
They said he was a god

[] 6:28
.1:1

]
.
. .

[
].

ounoute nouwt ... peiwt
nouwt peiwt
One God, the father

)One God (and

father
( ) 1 6:8
6:4 [ ] .


.
"" Functions
.Numerically ouwt

49

2 -4 4:2

efoywn\ mmof ebol je ounoute pe
Displaying himself as (a) god
2 4:2

(. 50)12-3:2
23 :

[ ] definite indefinite
.anarthrous []
[]
: " " eprpe

mpnoute " []"

" anarthrous
" etoumoute eroou je noute
.
49

Layton, A Coptic Grammar, 158b.

James D. G. Dunn, Beginning from Jerusalem (vol.2
of Christianity in the making(Grand Rapids, MI:
Eerdmans, 2009)), p.717
50

48

Thomas Lambdin, Introduction to Sahidic Coptic

(Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 1983), p.15

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.pe []

1:1 6:28 2

51
.

4:2

[:
] () 1 "

[]" ( )
( )2 " []"

( ) ( )3 (

[]

.

53

.d :

" [ ]

( " " "")" .54

] [

33:8 " []"

"" ""52

. 19:3

[]

.55
51

Layton, A Coptic Grammar, 267.

See, among others, Gorden D. Fee, The First and
Second Letters to the Thessalonians (Grand Rapids,
MI: Eerdmans, 2009). P. 283.

. 2

4:2

[]

. "" a god

"" divine .. )1(

( :
/ ) ( )2 ( :

[ ] :

)3( ) ( :
14-13:14 2:28 )4( )37-36:11

( semantic range :

) ( " "
)BDAG 108 ( )5 () ( : []

" "

"
"

(Earl J. Richard, First and Second

")
52

.56

Thessalonians, ed. Daniel J. Harrington (Collegeville,

) MN: Liturgical Press, 1995), p. 329
/
.qualitative

53
( ).
54
Friedrich Blass, Albert Debrunner, and Robert
Walter Funk, a Greek Grammar of the New
Testament and other Early Christian Literature,
Trans. and ed. Robert W. Funk (Chicago: University
of Chicago Press, 1961), p. 133.

55 43:7 ( 4:4 2

.)
56
See among others, Murray J. Harris, Jesus as God:

The New Testament Use of Theos in Reference To

Jesus (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 1992), p. 29; Daniel
Rathnakara Sadananda, The Johannine Exegesis of
God: An Exploration into the Johannine
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[ ]
[ ]

[]

noute

[]

pjoeic noute ppantwkra twr

Layton

. 7:16
" [] "

Lord God, the Almighty

2 4:4 "" a
god " [] "
:

pnoute aftwn nn\ht
the god of this age

[ ]
[ ] ([
] : epexegetical (
) objective [ possessive

]..) . 2 4:4
"" [
.canonical sense ]57
" [] "
" " ( 1 :17:1
) " ".58

Understanding of God (New York: Walter de Gruyter,

2004), p.177.
57 "

66
" ()
58 / /

(

3.1 )2.61

"
:3.1

" descriptive
( Predicate)

()

" .59

" []" ()



.

"

("

- .)118

( :2.61

- -
. -
(The
Apostolic Fathers, Greek Texts and English
Translation, 3rd edition, edited and translated by
Michael W. Holmes, Baker Academic, Grand Rapids:
) MI 2009
( 118 )119
) (

"

" "

- " 68

"

"

1975 "

" "
.

"68 " "
()
59
Layton, A Coptic Grammar, p. 227
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()

Qualitative

/.

() [ ] .
6:28 2 4:2 noute

6:28 "
"

( ":

[] .

)").

[] .

2 4:2
() .
2 4:2

" []"

. Pervo
180

60
Protg

. Dunn "

(
) "Divine " 61"god-likeness
][ .

(
)
.
(
[ ] )
60

Richard I. Pervo, Acts: A Commentary, ed. Harold

W. Attridge (Minneapolis, MN; Fortress, 2009), p.
674.His assessment is contra the majority of other
critical commentaries. See also F.F. Bruce, The Book
of the Acts (Grand Rapid, MI; Eerdmans, 1988), p.
499; Darrel L. Bock, Acts (Grand Rapids, MI; Baker,
2007), p. 744
61
Dunn, Beginning from Jerusalem, pp. 999, 1001, n.
195.
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C 1:1
.2

Bruce Metzger ""

C 1:1

[ ] The
.62 New World Translation

]c 1:1

.

c 1:1

:)Rule63

[]

" .64

( : Colwells

6665

()
interpretative

.qualitative
62

Bruce M. Metzger, On the Translation of

John 1:1 ExpTim 63 (1951-2), pp. 125-6; id.
Jehovahs Witnesses and Jesus Christ, ThTo 10
(1953), pp. 65-85
63 the Basics of New
Testament Syntax. By Daniel B. Wallace,p.115

"

" "

"
" "
(.)
64
See e.g. Andreas J. Kstenberger and Scott R.
Swain, Father, Son and Spirit: The Trinity and
Johns Gospel (Downers Grove, IL: Inter
Varsity, 2008), p.49; Douglas W. Kennard,

Messiah Jesus: Christology in his day and ours

(new York: Peter Lang, 2008), p. 473; J. Ramsey
Michaels, The Gospel of John (Grand Rapids,
MI: Eerdmans, 2010) p.48 n.10

65 . :

()

1:1

[ ] ( / )

.
6:28
""
"
.

[ ]

.......

()
( . )
66
;Matthew P. Morgan, The Legacy of a Letter
Sabellianism or Scribal Blunder in John 1:1 c? In
Daniel B. Wallace (ed.), revisiting the

Corruption of the NT: Manuscript, Patristic and

Apocryphal Evidence (Grand Rapids, MI:
Kregel, forthcoming). Cf. Daniel B. Wallace,
Greek Grammar Beyond the Basics: An
Exegetical Syntax of the New Testament (Grand
Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1996)pp. 257-62; id,
the Implications of an Indefinite in John
1.1c (paper presented at the annual meeting of
ETS, Danvers, MA, 18 Nov; 1999).
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[]

""" .67

[]" " "69

" []" .

" Malherbe
[]

] ]

" .70

"" [

[ : ]

] .

2 4:2
"

.descriptively "

" [] " "

" " [

67

] ( "

]6:28 ()
" " " []
68"Lesser divine god

James D. G. Dunn. The Acts of the Apostles

(Peterborough: Epworth, 1996) p. 347.

(C.K. Barrett, A Critical and

Exegetical Commentary on the Acts of the

Apostles, vol. 2 (New York: T & T Clark, 1998),
p. 1224). Cf., among others, Bruce, The Book of
Acts, p.499; Bock, Acts, P. 744; Acts Thom. 106.

68

....

"" """ ""

" " "

" " "

" " " " "

( :

) 325

: ( 327

) ( 329

"
.

()

() -

:
http://www.freeorthodoxmind.org/2012/08/blo
( g-post_8012.html)

[]").
.C1:1
/ [ ] 1:1
[] .
"
" []". 71

69 "........ 3

4

" 2 3:2 ( .4)

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