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Textual criticism has been practiced for over two thousand years, as one of the philological arts. [4] Early textual critics, especially the librarians of Hellenistic Alexandria in the last two centuries BC, were concerned with preserving the works of antiquity, and this continued through the Middle Ages into the early modern period and the invention of the printing press.
Textual criticism is a branch of philology and bibliography that is concerned with the identification and removal of errors from texts. Subcategories This category has the following 9 subcategories, out of 9 total.
In textual criticism, an archetype is a text that originates a textual tradition. By using a stemmatic approach, the textual critic tries to trace the oldest surviving manuscript and show the relationship it has to its ancestors. This makes it possible to compare changes made in different traditions branching off from the archetype, and develop ...
Johann Jakob Wettstein applied textual criticism to the Greek New Testament edition he published in 1751–2, and introduced a system of symbols for manuscripts. [16] From 1774 to 1807, Johann Jakob Griesbach adapted Bengel's text groups and established three text-types (later known as 'Western', 'Alexandrian', and 'Byzantine'), and defined the ...
The poet and scholar A. E. Housman challenged such reactive applications in 1922, in the provocatively titled article "The Application of Thought to Textual Criticism". [8] On the other hand, taken as an axiom, the principle lectio difficilior produces an eclectic text, rather than one based on a history of manuscript transmission.
Bahasa Indonesia; Íslenska; ... Criticism, in the sense of reasoned judgment or analysis. See also: Category: ... Textual criticism (9 C, 83 P)
Interest in textual criticism declined in the second half of the 20th century, but was given a new impulse at the beginning of the 21st century [5] [19] by the publication of a new modern German translation by Ludolf Müller in 2001, [5] an interlinear collation of the six main copies and a paradosis by Ostrowski et al. in 2003, [5] [20] and ...
Historical criticism (also known as the historical-critical method (HCM) or higher criticism, [1] in contrast to lower criticism or textual criticism [2]) is a branch of criticism that investigates the origins of ancient texts to understand "the world behind the text" [3] and emphasizes a process that "delays any assessment of scripture's truth and relevance until after the act of ...