New Testament Manuscripts
| Title | Τα χειρόγραφα της Καινής Διαθήκης / New Testament Manuscripts |
| Code | Χ319 |
| Faculty | Theology |
| School | Social Theology and Christian Culture |
| Cycle / Level | 1st / Undergraduate |
| Teaching Period | Winter |
| Coordinator | Aikaterini Tsalampouni |
| Common | Yes |
| Status | Active |
| Course ID | 600015692 |
Programme of Study: UPS of School of Pastoral and Social Theology (2013-today)
Registered students: 9
| Orientation | Attendance Type | Semester | Year | ECTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Core | Elective Courses | Winter | - | 4 |
| Academic Year | 2020 – 2021 |
| Class Period | Winter |
| Faculty Instructors |
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| Weekly Hours | 3 |
| Class ID | 600167440
|
Course Type 2016-2020
- Scientific Area
Course Type 2011-2015
Knowledge Deepening / Consolidation
Mode of Delivery
- Face to face
Digital Course Content
- e-Study Guide https://qa.auth.gr/en/class/1/600167440
- eLearning (Moodle): https://elearning.auth.gr/course/view.php?id=11352
Erasmus
The course is also offered to exchange programme students.
Language of Instruction
- Greek (Instruction, Examination)
- English (Instruction, Examination)
Prerequisites
General Prerequisites
A general knowledge of the issues that concern the Introduction to the New Testament
Learning Outcomes
After the successful completion of the course the students will be able to:
- recognize and describe the main features of a NT manuscript
- to understand and discuss main issues of NT textual criticism, to critically evaluate and make decisions about them
- to make use of the apparatus of NT critical editions in the exegesis of the New Testament
General Competences
- Apply knowledge in practice
- Retrieve, analyse and synthesise data and information, with the use of necessary technologies
- Make decisions
- Work autonomously
- Work in teams
- Work in an interdisciplinary team
- Generate new research ideas
- Be critical and self-critical
- Advance free, creative and causative thinking
Course Content (Syllabus)
The course aims at introducing the history of the New Testament manuscripts, their textual variations and the issues that arise from it, the contribution of textual criticism in establishing the history of the NT text as well as in its exegesis: 1) Introduction: content, aim of the course, assignments. The various types of NT manuscripts and their main representatives, 2) History and dissemination of the NT text - textual types - Greek, Latin, Syriac and multilanguage manuscripts, 3) Introduction to the major features of a NT manuscript - Electronic databases of digitized manuscripts, 4) Practical skill in the description and transcription of NT manuscripts, 5) Main principles of NT textual criticism: stemma, families, quantitative methods, CBGN method, eclectic text, 6) Method and criteria of NT textual criticism: internal and external criteria and examples, 7) Critical editions and apparatus, 8) Gospels: prologues, Diatessaron, Eusebian apparatus, paratext, catenae, 9) Cases of textual criticism in the Gospels: Jn 7:53-8,11 and Mk 16:8ff, 10) Pauline letters: Euthalian apparatus, prologues to the letters, catenae, 11) Cases of textual criticism in the Pauline letters: Rm 16 and 1Cor 14:34-35, 12) Acts: text variations and Revelation: issues of textual criticism, 13) The contribution of textual criticism to the exegesis and the research of NT theology
Keywords
New Testament, text history, textual criticism
Educational Material Types
- Notes
- Slide presentations
- Multimedia
- Databases of manuscripts
Use of Information and Communication Technologies
Use of ICT
- Use of ICT in Course Teaching
- Use of ICT in Communication with Students
- Use of ICT in Student Assessment
Description
- Communication with the students by e-mail
- digitized material for the study and evaluation of the students on e-learning patform
- use of powerpoint presentation in teaching
- use of digitized material and special applications
Course Organization
| Activities | Workload | ECTS | Individual | Teamwork | Erasmus |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lectures | 39 | 1.6 | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Reading Assigment | 30 | 1.2 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Interactive Teaching in Information Center | 10 | 0.4 | |||
| Field trips and participation in conferences / seminars / activities | 4 | 0.2 | |||
| Written assigments | 16 | 0.6 | |||
| Exams | 1 | 0.0 | |||
| Total | 100 | 4 |
Student Assessment
Description
Written assigment (30% of the final grade)
Analysis of texts in the class (20% of the final grade)
Oral exams (50% of the final grade)
Student Assessment methods
- Oral Exams (Summative)
- Performance / Staging (Formative, Summative)
- Labortatory Assignment (Formative, Summative)
Bibliography
Course Bibliography (Eudoxus)
Σημειώσεις και διαφάνειες στην πλατφόρμα του e-learning
Additional bibliography for study
- K. Aland / B. Aland, The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism, μτφρ. Erroll Rhodes, Eerdmans: Grand Rapids, 1981
- B. Ehrman / M. Holmes (επιμ.), The Text of the New Testament in Contemporary Research: Essays on the Status Quaestionis, 2η έκδ., Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2013
- Hurtado, Larry. The Earliest Christian Artifacts: Manuscripts and Christian Origins. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2006
- B. Metzger, Manuscripts of the Greek Bible: An Introduction to Palaeography. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1991
- B. Metzger, The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption, and Restoration, 3η έκδ. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 1992
- Β. Μetzger, A Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament, 2η έκδ., Stuttgart: German Bible Society, 1994
- D. Parker, An Introduction to the New Testament Manuscripts and Their Texts, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008
Last Update
17-02-2020
