CNTTS Critical Apparatus

The CNTTS NT Critical Apparatus is available on all major Bible software platforms.

• Continuous development of a comprehensive searchable, electronic database of variants in the entire New Testament.
• Ongoing collation work on numerous New Testament manuscripts.

• The CNTTS NT Critical Apparatus is now available in 

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Greek Paul Project

• "Participate in the transcription of Greek manuscripts in support of the creation of a modern critical edition of Paul's first epistle to Timothy.  Intermediate undergraduate students will learn to decipher Greek minuscule script and to transcribe manuscripts in an online environment in a three-week segment of their second-year Greek course.  Advanced undergraduate students will dedicate a semester to transcribing Greek manuscripts and writing a paper on an issue germane to New Testament textual criticism and the history of the Greek Bible."

INTF New Testament Virtual Manuscript Room

CNTTS iOS/Android App (NT Greek MSS)

• To download the app, you can search "NOBTS" on the App Store (iOS devices) or Google Play (Android devices). 

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The CNTTS Manuscripts Illuminations Project

Dr. Warren Langford, Project Director and Researcher

• The CNTTS Manuscripts Illuminations Project seeks to examine, identify, and describe the artistic features within NT manuscripts through the 10^th century. Special attention is given to how the artwork was used in dividing, highlighting, and identifying specific sections of text, driven by the question about the ways in which the artistic features represent an evolving use of such features within the NT manuscripts. While one should not exclude the decorative function of the art, the artistic features operate within the practical boundaries of a codex. A catalog, description, and commentary of the artistic features within the manuscripts illustrate the functional nature of artistic expression within an ever-evolving copy process. 
• As for the backdrop for this project, the development of the codex historically has been observed from both artistic and textual (paleographical) approaches. In the 1950s, Kurt Weitzmann hoped that the methodology of textual criticism could influence the creation and consolidation of a methodology for analyzing artistic criticism. Building on this, more recently, textual critics like David Parker have acknowledged a need for a more holistic examination of NT manuscripts by highlighting a new emphasis in identifying and cataloging paratextual evidence, with artistic features such as manuscript illuminations fitting into that category.
• The use of these artistic features, as noted in studies such as Eric Turner’s Typology of the Early Codex and Kurt Weitzmann’s Illustrations in Roll and Codex, accompanied the transition from scroll to codex, a transition that proved to be a high developmental point in human history with regard to literary works. With this transition occurring especially during the third and fourth centuries, the shift created notable developments in the copying of texts and opened new dimensions in artistic illumination as seen in the larger areas used for portraits, areas that came to include embellishments both in full-page portraits and around the earlier medallion-style portraits. Although only a handful of NT manuscripts fall within the transition period and only a few of those contain artistic features, later NT manuscripts contain elaborate artistic features, with these being highlighted in this project.

 

Replica New Testament Papyri

Creation of the replica New Testament papyri for the purposes of study and display.

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Exegetical Commentary Project

Development of an English-based, searchable commentary for the purposes of exegesis.