Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Foreword to the English translation by J. K. Elliott
- Translator's preface
- Foreword to the first French edition
- Preface to the second French edition
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 THE SOURCES OF TEXTUAL CRITICISM
- 2 THE METHOD OF TEXTUAL CRITICISM
- 3 THE HISTORY OF THE WRITTEN TEXT
- 4 THE HISTORY AND THE FUTURE OF THE PRINTED TEXT
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Index of modern authors and editors
- Index of ancient authors
- Index of individual manuscripts cited
- General index
Foreword to the English translation by J. K. Elliott
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 November 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Foreword to the English translation by J. K. Elliott
- Translator's preface
- Foreword to the first French edition
- Preface to the second French edition
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 THE SOURCES OF TEXTUAL CRITICISM
- 2 THE METHOD OF TEXTUAL CRITICISM
- 3 THE HISTORY OF THE WRITTEN TEXT
- 4 THE HISTORY AND THE FUTURE OF THE PRINTED TEXT
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Index of modern authors and editors
- Index of ancient authors
- Index of individual manuscripts cited
- General index
Summary
Christian Amphoux is employed by the French research body CNRS and is based at the Protestant Faculty of Theology in Montpellier, where he set up the ‘Centre de documentation sur les manuscrits de la Bible’ in 1984. In 1988 I was privileged to be present at a ceremony held at that institution to mark its change of name to that of the ‘Centre Jean Duplacy pour l'étude des manuscrits de la Bible’, in memory of the well-known Roman Catholic scholar from Dijon, who had died in 1983, and whose pupil Amphoux had been.
This was more than an ecumenical gesture. It reflected a continuity in textual criticism in France. This continuum is reflected in the present book. Vaganay's Initiation appeared in 1934. Duplacy had intended to revise that work but his untimely death prevented this happening. Instead, Christian Amphoux, whose institute has inherited the Duplacy library, eagerly undertook the revision, and it was a happy thought that when he published the work in 1986 it was dedicated to his former tutor. Another ecumenical link is that Amphoux, like Duplacy before him, continues to teach for the Faculté de théologie catholique at Lyons, and that faculty has been a partner in the Montpellier ‘Centre’ since 1988.
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- An Introduction to New Testament Textual Criticism , pp. xiii - xviPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1991