New Testament manuscripts

E5878

New Testament manuscripts are ancient handwritten copies of the Christian New Testament texts, preserved in various languages and forms and serving as the primary evidence for reconstructing the original biblical writings.


Statements (50)
Predicate Object
instanceOf Christian religious texts
ancient manuscripts
sources for New Testament textual criticism
textual witnesses
areCataloguedBy Institute for New Testament Textual Research
areCataloguedUsing Gregory–Aland numbering
von Soden numbering
areHandwritten true
arePartOf New Testament textual tradition
arePreservedIn libraries
monasteries
museums
private collections
areUsedFor biblical translation
historical Jesus research
history of early Christianity
reconstructing the original New Testament text
textual criticism
areWrittenIn Armenian
Coptic
Ethiopic
Georgian
Gothic
Koine Greek
Latin
Slavonic
Syriac
areWrittenOn paper
papyrus
parchment
contain Acts of the Apostles
Book of Revelation
Catholic epistles
Gospels
Pauline epistles
haveEarliestExamplesFrom 2nd century
haveMajorTextTypes Alexandrian text-type
Byzantine text-type
Caesarean text-type
Western text-type
include Greek papyri
lectionaries
minuscule manuscripts
patristic citations
uncial manuscripts
versions
mayBe commentary manuscripts
continuous-text manuscripts
lectionary manuscripts
precede printed New Testament editions

Referenced by (7)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
New Testament manuscripts ("New Testament textual tradition")
arePartOf
Institute for New Testament Textual Research ("Kurzgefasste Liste of Greek New Testament manuscripts")
maintains
Koine Greek
primaryLanguageOf
New American Bible ("Greek New Testament")
textBasisNewTestament
Septuagint ("Alexandrian text-type")
textType
Titus ("Greek New Testament manuscripts")
textualTradition
Gregory–Aland numbering ("New Testament manuscript catalogs")
usedBy

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