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TCG 2007

An Online Textual Commentary
on the Greek Gospels
Fifth edition
last update: 17.04.2008
In Memoriam
Bruce M. Metzger died on Feb. 13 2007.
Bruce M. Metzger
I dedicate this edition to him. He was a master!


This commentary discusses the 1000 most important textual variants of the Gospels, plus about 500 minor ones, on about 2400 pages. The commentary is not in HTML, because the Greek fonts and all the formatting with tabs etc. are too difficult to implement. Therefore everything is in PDF. To view these files you need Adobe Acrobat reader (it's free). So far I was able to update this commentary once a year.
Please send in your articles, suggestions and comments: Wieland Willker
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Introduction
(Please read these first!)
  1. General Introduction (Preface 1st edition)
  2. Preface 2nd edition
  3. Preface 3rd edition
  4. Preface 4th edition
  5. Preface 5th edition
    6. - NEW
  6. How to read the commentary

Knowledge of documents
  1. Results on the MSS
  2. Description of fragmentary Uncial MSS
  3. Description of fragmentary Papyri
  4. Some notes on the Coptic Mt = mae-2
  5. Examples of Blockmixing
  6. MSS-Tables
  7. The best MSS of the Gospels (print-out)
    Use this table together with the commentary

  8. Results on texttypes

  9. Western non-interpolations
 Little man, by a schoolboy, Faijum 4th CE --- This graphic is found in a little exercise-book (16 pages, 5 x 9 cm, P. Vindob G 29274), made of papyrus left-overs. One can see exercises of a writing novice. On the last page there is the little man. Commentary
(Alert: ca. 1.3 MB each!)
  1. Matthew

    2. Mt Minor variants WH
  2. Mark
    The endings of Mark
    Mk Minor variants WH
  3. Luke

    4. Lk Minor variants WH
  4. John
    The Pericope Adulterae
    Jo Minor variants WH

Copyright

I would like to thank the folks from Bibleworks, especially Mike Bushell for providing a fantastic program. Without Bibleworks this commentary would have been impossible. I consider this program to be the best currently available tool for Bible research purposes. THANK YOU!
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