Johann Martin Augustin Scholz
Johann Martin Augustin Scholz (1794-1852), a pupil of Johann Leonhard Hug (1765-1846), professor from University of Bonn, travelled extensively throughout Europe and the Near East in order to find out manuscripts of New Testament. He added to the list of Greek manuscripts of the New Testament 616 new cursive manuscripts. His additions to the list of uncials comprise only three fragments of the Gospels Wa, Y, and N. These manuscripts were partially examined and collated by him.[1] Results of his work were published in 1830-1836.
The accession of fresh materials was extensive. Scholz indicated codices 260-469 of the Gospels, 110-192 of the Acts, 125-246 of the Pauline epistles, 51-89 of the Apocalypse, 51-181 Evangelistaria, and 21-58 Apostoloi.[2]
Scholz collated the entire text of five manuscripts 262, 299, 300, 301, 346. Other manuscripts he collated in the greater part (260, 270, 271, 277, 284, 285, 298, 324, 353, 382, 428).
Scholz divided all New Testament manuscripts into five families: two African (Alexandrian and Western), one Asiatic, one Byzantine, and one Cyprian. He was the first who emphasized the importance of ascertaining the geographical provenance. That point was elaborated by Streeter in 1924 ("theory of local texts"). Scholz, after some tentative attempts of classifying manuscripts, rejected this theory and adopted Bengel's division into two families, which he called the Alexandrian and the Constantinopolitan. He favored the Constantinopolitan (Byzantine) family of manuscripts, but in 1845 he retracted his preference for the Constantinopolitan.[3]
Works
- Curae criticae in historiam textus Evangeliorum: commentationibus duabus, Heidelberg 1820
- Reise in die Gegend zwischen Alexandrien und Parätonium, die libysche Wüste, Siqa, Egypten, Palästina und Syrien, Leipzig, 1822 (Reprint: Georg Olms Verlag, 2005)
- Biblisch-kritische Reise in Frankreich, der Schweiz, Italien, Palästine und im Archipel in den Jahren 1818, 1819, 1820, 1821: Nebst einer Geschichte des Textes des Neuen Testaments, Leipzig, 1823
- Die heilige Schrift des neuen Testaments übersetzt, erklärt und in historisch-kritischen Einleitungen zu den einzelnen Büchern erläutert, Barrentrapp, Frankfurt a. M., 1829. vol. I: Die vier Evangelien, Franz Barrentrapp, Frankfurt am Main 1829; vol. II: Die Apostelgeschichte und die katholischen Briefe, ebenda 1830; vol. III: Die vierzehn Briefe des heiligen Apostels Paulus, ebenda 1830; Bd. IV: Die Apokalypse des heiligen Johannes des Apostels und Evangelisten, ebenda 1828)
- Die heilige Schrift des alten Testaments., Frankfurt, 1830-1837
- Novum Testamentum Graece. Textum ad fidem Testium Criticorum recensuit, Lectionum Familias subjecit, Leipzig, 1830-1836 (2 Bände)
- Handbuch der biblischen Archäologie, Bonn, 1834
- Einleitung in die heiligen Schriften des alten und neuen Testaments, Köln, 1845
References
- ^ S. P. Tregelles, The Printed Text of the Greek New Testament, London 1854, p. 92.
- ^ Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. 1. London: George Bell & Sons. p. 227.
- ^ Bruce M. Metzger, Bart D. Ehrman, "The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption and Restoration", Oxford University Press, 2005, p. 169.
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