Textual Criticism Resources

A good place to start is the SESB 3, which contains apparatuses for the NA27, BHS, BHQ fascicles, Rahlfs Septuagint and the Vulgate.

http://www.logos.com/products/details/6485

Metzger's Textual Commentary is a nice addition for the NA27.

http://www.logos.com/products/details/1903

Tischendorf's Apparatus is fairly old, so it doesn't contain the newer textual discoveries, but it's a larger apparatus than the NA27's, containing many readings that the NA27 editors didn't include: http://www.logos.com/products/details/1775

The New Testament Textual Criticism Collection includes some fine books:

http://www.logos.com/products/details/4120

The Biblical Languages: Reference Grammars and Introductions Collection (http://www.logos.com/products/prepub/details/4679) includes Westcott's Introduction to the New Testament in the Original Greek as well as Swete's Introduction to the Old Testament in Greek, both of which are good reading and introduce the types of textual issues that folk digging into apparatuses should be aware of.

Some newer individual titles include:

Old Testament Textual Criticism: http://www.logos.com/products/details/3605

A Student's Guide to Textual Criticism of the Bible: http://www.logos.com/products/details/2970

Some older works on the subject are available (I haven't looked closely at either of these yet):

Nestle's Introduction to the Textual Criticism of the New Testament: http://www.logos.com/products/prepub/details/6424

Warfield's An Introduction to the Textual Criticism of the New Testament: http://www.logos.com/ebooks/details/INTROTXTCRTNT

If you're interested in the LXX, Tov's alignment between the LXX and the Hebrew/Aramaic scriptures includes many notes on the translation and reconstructions of what the LXX translators might have been looking at: http://www.logos.com/products/details/1785

My favorite Text Criticism book NOT found in Logos (at least yet) is Tov's Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible. Wurthwein's Text of the Old Testament would be my second choice, and Aland and Aland's Text of the New Testament is also good (as is just about anything by Metzger on the subject).

James Chaisson said:

Thank you for your post.