id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt 5712m615k50 Amy M. Donaldson Explicit References to New Testament Variant Readings among Greek and Latin Church Fathers 2009 .txt text/plain 351 11 34 After a general assessment of New Testament textual scholarship by the early church (including recensional and scribal activity), patristic textual criticism is compared to modern practice to assess to what extent the church fathers engaged in textual criticism and what insights we can gain from them today. In his introduction to New Testament textual criticism, Eberhard Nestle stated a desideratum, later repeated by Bruce Metzger, for a collection, arranged according to time and locality, of all passages in which the church fathers appeal to New Testament manuscript evidence. cache/5712m615k50.txt txt/5712m615k50.txt