Should I buy Nestle's "Introduction to the Textual Criticism of the Greek New Testament"?

Eric Weiss

I see this book is on Pre-Pub per Logos Wire, to ship 11/29. It's 109 years old. Is it still a good resource, or are Nestle's comments about texts, mss., Textual Criticism (TC), etc., too out of date so as to be misleading if one relies on them instead of, e.g., Metzger and the Alands re: TC?

Mike Aubrey

I see this book is on Pre-Pub per Logos Wire, to ship 11/29. It's 109 years old. Is it still a good resource, or are Nestle's comments about texts, mss., Textual Criticism (TC), etc., too out of date so as to be misleading if one relies on them instead of, e.g., Metzger and the Alands re: TC?

Well, thankfully, history doesn't change much, which tends to make resources like this still rather helpful. Nestle isn't going to give much discussion of the papyri, but his knowledge of the manuscripts and TC make him useful for the manuscripts that were available at the time.