WORKSHEET FOR TEXTUAL VARIANT ANALYSIS[1]

 

PASSAGE:                                                                  APPARATUS USED:

 

CLASSIFICATION OF WITNESSES

Variant

Readings

Alexandrian

(Aland I-II)

Western

(Aland IV)

Unclassified

(Aland III)

Byzantine

(Aland V)

 

 

 

 

 

 

EVALUATION OF EXTERNAL EVIDENCE

 

1.   Date.

 

2.   Geographical Distribution.

 

3.   Textual Relationships.

 

Summary of the External Evidence

 

 

EVALUATION OF THE INTERNAL EVIDENCE

 

1.   Transcriptional Probabilities, i.e. what scribes likely did when copying the N.T.

 

      (1)     Shorter/Longer Reading.

 

      (2)     Reading Different from Parallel.

 

      (3)     More Difficult Reading.

 

      (4)     Reading Which Best Explains Origin of Other(s).

 

2.   Intrinsic Probabilities, i.e. what the author himself likely wrote.

 

Summary of Internal Evidence

 

CONCLUSION

 

 


[1]Guidelines prepared by Dr. James Brooks for use in textual critical analysis of the Greek text. Used by permission. For details on filling in the sections of this worksheet, see the handout EVALUATION OF VARIOUS READINGS ACCORDING TO THE THEORY OF RATIONAL ECLECTICISM.