Theodore Letis section on Sinaiticus debate in the Journals

[Steven Avery]

From Sacred Text to Religious Text: An Intellectual History of the Impact of Erasmian Lower Criticism on Dogma as a Contribution to the English
Enlightenment and the Victorian Crisis of Faith
https://era.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/6798
https://era.ed.ac.uk/bitstream/handle/1842/6798/511292.pdf?sequence=3&isAllowed=y

Theodore P. Letis 1995

 

[Steven Avery]

1995 - likely before Internet sources

p. 333

G. Tischendorf, Inspiration and the Deconstruction of the Second Phase of the Ideology of Harmless Engagement

By the 1860s Tischendorf and his many exploits as archaeologist/ palaeographer would not have an equal on British soil until the arrival on the scene of Frederic G. Kenyon with his The Palaeography of the Greek Papyri Oxford, 1899. The romantic fascination of that elite company of British scholars and divines obsessed with Biblical manuscript discoveries during this Victorian golden age of imperial archaeological dominance has had no equal in any age, since perhaps the Renaissance itself. Tischendorf was constantly in the religious press and periodical literature of the day, particularly surrounding his discovery and analysis of the oldest uncial of the Greek Bible that had ever been examined outside of the Vatican Library’s precious and shrouded, Codex Vaticanus--the famous Codex Sinaiticus, now, ironically, housed in the British Library. The following is only a brief sample:

Review of Travels in the East by Constantine Tischendorf,

The Eclectic Review (July-December 1848):553-569;
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"Codex Sinaiticus," The Christian Observer (October 1860): 183-187;
needed - check Elliott for CO

"The Codex Sinaiticus, and the Adulteress in the Temple," Christian Observer (January 1861 ):441-446;
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"The Codex Sinaiticus," Christian Observer (January 1861):485-489;
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review of Bibliorum Codex Sinaiticus Petropolitanus in The Christian Remembrancer (1863): 374-402;
http://books.google.com/books?id=rPQDAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA374

"Notices-The Codex Sinaiticus”' The Christian Remembrancer (1863): 251;
needed

"The Codex Sinaiticus," The Journal of Sacred Literature (April 1863): 1-16;
http://books.google.com/books?id=vvgDAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA1

"The Date of Codex Sinaiticus," The Journal of Sacred Literature (July 1863): 448-449; Ibid.: 479-499;
http://books.google.com/books?id=vvgDAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA448
http://books.google.com/books?id=gnstAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA478

"Note on the Codex Sinaiticus," The Theological Review (1864): 214-222;
http://books.google.com/books?id=QUAEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA214

"The Codex Sinaiticus," The Journal of Sacred Literature (April 1865): 108-109;
https://books.google.com/books?id=6PgDAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA108

"Tischendorf s Edition of the Vatican New Testament," The Theological Review (July 1867):351-362.29
http://books.google.com/books?id=CjE2AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA351

There was even a full-scale controversy as to whether or not the uncial had been forged by an unscrupulous Greek eccentric.30

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This romance with Tischendorf retained its quality well into the next century with works like the English translations of Tischendorf s Codex
Sinaiticus:

The Ancient Biblical Manuscript Now in the British Museum 8th ed., 1934; and

Luwig (sic) Schneller, Search on Sinai: The Story of Tischendorfs Life and the Search for a Lost Manuscript, 1939, and more recently,

Matthew Black and Robert Davidson, Constantin von Tischendorf and the Greek New Testament (1981).

Constantin von Tischendorf and the Greek New Testament: Matthew Black: 9780852611647: Amazon.com: Books

Constantin von Tischendorf and the Greek New Testament [Matthew Black] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Constantin von Tischendorf and the Greek New Testament

www.amazon.com

These have, however, all been eclipsed now by the rather popular but, nevertheless, important study by

James Bentley, Secrets of Mount Sinai: The Story of Finding the World’s Oldest Bible-Codex Sinaiticus, 1986. ... James H. Charlesworth .. foreward



Chapter continues through p. 348