The Text of Galatians and Its History

dc.contributor.advisor	Goodacre, Mark S
dc.contributor.advisor	Ehrman, Bart D
dc.contributor.author	Carlson, Stephen Conrad
dc.date.accessioned	2012-05-25T20:21:32Z
dc.date.available	2012-05-25T20:21:32Z
dc.date.issued	2012
dc.department	Religion
dc.description.abstract	This dissertation investigates the text of Paul's Epistle to the Galatians and its history, how it changed over time. This dissertation performs a stemmatic analysis of 92 witnesses to the text of Galatians, using cladistic methods developed by computational biologists, to construct an unoriented stemma of the textual tradition. The stemma is then oriented based on the internal evidence of textual variants. After the stemma is oriented, the textual variants near the base of the stemma are examined and the text of Galatians is established based on stemmatic and eclectic principles. In addition, two branches of the textual tradition, the Western and the Eastern-Byzantine, are studied to assess the nature of textual variation in their history. This study reaches the conclusion that a modified stemmatic approach is an effective way to study both the text of a New Testament book and its history.
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10161/5597
dc.subject	Biblical studies
dc.subject	cladistics
dc.subject	Galatians
dc.subject	pragmatics
dc.subject	stemmatics
dc.subject	Textual criticism
dc.title	The Text of Galatians and Its History
dc.type	Dissertation

Files

Now showing 1 - 1 of 1