List of well-known New Testament philologists

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The list of well-known New Testament philologists includes all scholars past and present who contributed to the philological development of the original Greek text of the New Testament and its translations into Latin and various other ancient languages ​​(e.g. Syriac, Armenian).

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  • Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros (1463–1517), Archbishop of Toledo, publishes the Complutensic Polyglot, the first printed edition of the Greek New Testament

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  • Frederic G. Kenyon (1863–1952), British classical philologist, palaeographer and papyrologist, tradition and textual criticism of the New Testament
  • Erich Klostermann (1870–1963), German Protestant New Testament scholar, comments on Markus, Matthew and Luke in the New Testament manual

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  • Karl Lachmann (1793–1851), German medievalist and classical philologist, published the New Testament on the basis of his text-critical method
  • Kirsopp Lake (1872–1946), British New Testament scholar, New Testament textual review, edition and commentary on the Acts of the Apostles

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  • Carlo Maria Martini (1927–2012), Catholic Archbishop of Milan, co-editor of the Novum Testamentum Graece by Nestle and Aland
  • Christian Friedrich Matthäi (1744–1811), German classical philologist, published the Novum Testamentum Graece and the Paulus letters
  • Bruce M. Metzger (1914–2007), American biblical scholar, co-editor of the Novum Testamentum Graece by Nestle and Aland and editor of the Greek New Testament, Text History of the New Testament, Commentaries on the New Testament
  • John Mill (around 1645–1707), English theologian, published the Novum testamentum græcum
  • Emmanuel Miller (1812–1886), French Graecist, Byzantinist and paleographer, dating of manuscripts of the New Testament
  • Thomas More

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  • Eberhard Nestle (1851–1913), German Protestant theologian and orientalist, publisher of the Novum Testamentum Graece from 1898
  • Erwin Nestle (1883–1972), German Protestant theologian and classical philologist, developed the text-critical apparatus for the 13th edition of the Novum Testamentum Graece and was editor of Luther's Vulgate revision

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  • Hubert Pernot (1870–1946), French linguist, Byzantinist and Neo-Graecist, proponent of a two-stage theory with regard to the textual history of the New Testament
  • Andrew W. Pitts (*), American evangelical theologian, editor with Stanley E. Porter of A Handbook to the Textual Criticism of the New Testament and commentator on the language of the New Testament
  • Stanley E. Porter (* 1956), American Protestant theologian, editor with Andrew W. Pitts of A Handbook to the Textual Criticism of the New Testament and researcher on the language of the New Testament (especially the verbal aspect)

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  • Johann Martin Augustin Scholz (1794–1852), German Catholic theologian, text critic of the New Testament and editor of the text edition Novum Testamentum Graece
  • Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener (1813–1891), British Anglican pastor and member of the Committee for the Publication of the Revised Version of the King James Bible, major text critic of the New Testament
  • Johann Salomo Semler (1725–1791), German Protestant theologian and co-founder of historical-critical biblical studies
  • Richard Simon (1638–1712), French Catholic theologian, exegete, philosopher and historian, is considered the real founder of the historical-critical method in biblical studies.
  • Hermann von Soden (1852-1914), German Evangelical Lutheran theologian, comprehensive presentation of the New Testament with its development history in all readings

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  • Bernhard Weiß (1827–1918), German Protestant theologian, exegete and text critic of the New Testament
  • Brooke Foss Westcott (1825-1901), Anglican theologian, exegete and text critic, with Fenton John Anthony Hort editor of the text edition The New Testament in the Original Greek , which marked the end of the Textus receptus in the textual constitution
  • Johann Jakob Wettstein (1693–1754), Swiss theologian, pioneer of textual criticism of the New Testament and editor of a recognized text edition of the New Testament
  • Albert Wifstrand (1901–1964), Swedish classical philologist
  • Allen Wikgren (1906–1998), American theologian, New Testament text critic

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  • Günther Zuntz (1902–1992), British classical philologist of German origin, author of works on the text history of the Gospels and the Corpus Paulinum

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