Prolegomena to Bentley's Unfinished New Testament Project

An Ting Yi; Jan Krans; Bert Jan Lietaert Peerbolte

doi:10.1163/15685365-12341670

Prolegomena to Bentley's Unfinished New Testament Project

An Ting Yi, Jan Krans, Bert Jan Lietaert Peerbolte

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It is well known that the eighteenth-century classical scholar Richard Bentley once announced but never finished an ambitious project for a critical NT edition. What is less well known is that numerous entries of his archive have been preserved in Wren Library of Trinity College (TCL), Cambridge, until today. This article provides some prolegomena to a comprehensive enquiry into Bentley's unfinished NT project. It includes an updated summary of the archive, relevant secondary literature, a few examples for illustration, and on the basis of all this, some suggestions for future study.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	322-338
Number of pages	17
Journal	Novum Testamentum
Volume	62
Issue number	3
Early online date	18 Jun 2020
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1163/15685365-12341670
Publication status	Published - Jun 2020

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Richard Bentley
New Testament
textual criticism
history of scholarship
Wren Library
Trinity College Cambridge

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