Foretaste of findings
Pages are keys to the content, format and structure of the original documents or "archetypes" from which the New Testament was constructed.
The project:
- Confirms some critics' suspicions that in a few cases an NT book derives from several original archetypes, and that in one case several NT books derive from a single archetype.
- Identifies the original archetypes to a fairly high degree of accuracy using a technique which will normally expose any interpolation representing more than about three lines of UBS Greek text (120 Greek letters).
- Reveals the detailed hierarchical structures which the writers had in mind when planning their archetypes.
- Identifies which NT documents had multiple editions.
- Provides convincing evidence as to which NT documents were originally written on codices.
A fairly complex example of my findings has been available elsewhere on this site for many years:
The formation of John's gospel
A simpler example has now been added here as the next page. It concerns Acts for which, by contrast, the best modern Greek text ('NA27') can for all practical purposes be taken to be identical to the text which was produced by its author ca. 100 CE.