Text-Critical Witnesses and Methodology for Isolating a Distinctive D-Text in Acts.
Within the past decade, a few leading New Testament textual critics have challenged two major, long-standing convictions by urging that we should speak no longer (1) of "text-types" or (2) of two textual streams in the Acts of the Apostles. Certainly the term "type" is too rigid and definitive to de...
| Publicado en: | Novum Testamentum Vol. 59; no. 3; pp. 225 - 297 |
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Brill Academic Publishers
2017
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