Current Trends and Present Tasks in New Testament Textual Criticism

Abstract

"The discipline of textual criticism with which this essay deals in part is not in our day a favourite department of scholarship: the centre of interest in biblical studies lies in theological topics, and the attention, I presume, of most working ministers is given to the rich sources of sermon material found in the many works on biblical theology which almost daily pour forth rather than to a task which deals so largely with linguistic minutiae, and which, perhaps, from his student days has appeared to be a laborious and pendantic exercise. I think this is a true picture, and its truth is applicable even to the realm of the professional scholar."