Shorter reading discussion.
The Greek New Testament: Fourth Edition (2023)
Wayne A. Mitchell
https://www.academia.edu/108609695/The_Greek_New_Testament_Fourth_Edition
This text critical Greek New Testament 2nd Corrected Printing
follows a revision of Griesbach concerning long and short readings. The critical apparatus has over 3,200 footnotes, often with versions and church fathers,
and the appendix has 177 examples of homoioteleuton. The first three editions were published in digital format. The complete text with critical apparatus can also be viewed in the MySword Bible app, module MGNT. This preview is pre typesetting.
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In 1796 J. J. Gricsbach published proposed rules for tcxl criticism,
and these have been viewed as having “laid the foundations of mod-
em text criticism.”5 One of Gricsbach’s suppositions was that “A
shorter reading, unless it is completely unsupported by early and
important witnesses, should be preferred to a fuller reading.” An-
other exception was that one should not prefer the shorter reading
“if an omission could have been caused by homoiotcleuton.”6 IIo-
moiotclcuton is a Greek word that means “similar ending,” and de-
scribes the error that occurs when the eye of a copyist skips from
the ending letters of a word to the same or similar ending letters of
a word farther in the manuscript, omitting all intervening text.
(continues with reference to the Peter Gurry paper.)
