Intersection: Interdisciplinary Approaches to New Testament Text and Manuscript Studies

Discover the most up-to-date discoveries--and debates--in the field of New Testament textual criticism from the pioneers in the field of biblical studies, the Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts.

Intersection explores ways in which New Testament textual criticism interacts with other disciplines such as paleography, art history, exegesis, paratext, linguistics, and conservation--all of which informs our understanding of the New Testament transmission in its broad context.

Intersection provides cutting-edge scholarship in the newest research in text criticism, a field that is rapidly evolving with the use of AI and digital data analysis. It extends beyond just text criticism by exploring how other disciplines like paleography, art history, exegesis, paratext, linguistics, and conservation also affect text criticism.

New Testament textual criticism is the study concerned with finding variations in similar manuscripts in order to help scholars answer these questions:

• Why errors and changes were introduced (or left out) of manuscripts that were copied by hand.
• Why two biblical manuscripts do not exactly match.
• Why a scribe might have made the particular choice they made, resulting in a variant, or difference, in a given manuscript.

Key Features of Intersection

• Visuals Compare scanned images of fragments and charts of transcribed text side by side
• Explanations Understand why certain changes or errors were modified, kept, or left out by scribes in depth
• Interdisciplinary Gain insights on what other fields like art history, linguistics, and other disciplines inform our understanding of the texts