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(On the whole each of the editors is probably satisfied that the new text represents the best that can be achieved in the present state of knowledge)
The text of the new testament., by kurt aland .,pg34



(Of course the new text itself is not a static entity. The members of the editorial committee as well as all others responsible for the edition agree on the tentative nature of the publication.)

The text of the new testament., by kurt aland .,pg34


[The first step in the text-critical process became the establishment of the earliest attainable text form on the basis of the entire extant manuscript tradition.]
Beyond What Is Written, Erasmus and Beza as Conjectural Critics of the New Testament, by Jan Krans, intro., pg5. (2006)


Die Schriften des Neuen Testaments in ihrer altesten erreichbaren Textgestalt hergestellt auf Grund ihrer Textgeschicht



(the goal of which, he says, is the recovery of the best received text rather than the author's autograph)
The canon of the new testament. by Bruce.Metzger.,pg269


"1.4 Goal of Textual Criticism :Since no autographs are available today of either the Old or New Testaments, the general task of the text critic is to get back as close as possible to those autographs. This is no easy task, for textual criticism is also affected by higher-critical matters, such as how and when a text reached its final form"
Astudent's guide to textual criticism,intro.



"The necessity of applying textual criticism to the books of the New Testament arises from two circumstances: id) none of the original documents is extant, and ib) the existing copies differ from one another.
The textual critic seeks to ascertain from the divergent copies which form of the text should be regarded as most nearly conforming to the original."

The text of the new testament, Its Transmission,Corruption, and Restoration ,Preface to the First Edition

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"The first recognized scholar to break totally with the Textus Receptus was the celebrated classical and Germanic philologist of Berlin Karl Lachmann (1793-1851), who published an edition of the Greek Testament that rests wholly upon the application of textual criticism in the evaluation of variant readings.
In edking the New Testament, Lachmann's aim was not to reproduce the original text, which he believed to be an impossible task, but to present on purely documentary evidence."

The text of the NT 4^th edit,its transmission corruption and restoration Bruce metzger&bart ehrman pg-170



"If the ultimate goal of textual criticism is to reconstruct the original text of the New Testament, criticism can be seen as a principally negative endeavor, involving the elimination of false readings from the manuscripts so as to attain the pristine originals. In the words of
Fenton John Anthony Hort, the task involves "nothing more than the detection and rejection of error."

The text of the NT 4^th edit transmission corruption and restoration Bruce metzger&bart ehrman pg-170


That is the purpose of textual criticism: Working with the materials available, to reconstruct the original text of an ancient document with as much accuracy as possible.
The Encyclopedia of New Testament Textual Criticism by Robert B. Waltz Inspired by Rich Elliott Pg 3



In a real context a large proportion of the witnesses is generally lacking. Consequently, the relation between the states of text of the existing witnesses can only be the subject of a genealogical hypothesis. It cannot be the objective of such a hypothesis to reconstruct in detail historical processes. That is impossible. Rather it is the objective to find the structure which interprets in the most straightforward way the genealogical relations between the available states of text and which is not falsified at any place of variation.
Gerd Mink The Coherence-Based Genealogical Method – What is it about?
http://www.uni-muenster.de/INTF/Gene...al_method.html


The initial text preceded the textual tradition and has not survived in any manuscript. We cannot know this text with certainty, but can only reconstruct it hypothetically.

Institut für neutestamentliche Textforschung , Institute for New Testament Textual Research Münster Colloquium on the Textual History of the Greek New Testament , 3-6 August 2008 , Introductory Presentation by Gerd Mink,pg12



"establishing the earliest attainable text.”

Eldon J. Epp, “It’s All about Variants: A Variant-Conscious Approach to New Testament Textual Criticism,” in Harvard Theological Review 100 (2007), p.308



Richard Bentley in 1720 to suggest abandoning the search for a text that was “as close as possible to the original,” and instead to be
content with an edition of the Greek New Testament exactly as it was in the best exemplar at the time of the Council of Nicaea.
William L. Petersen, “What Text Can New Testament Textual Criticism Ultimately Reach,” in Barbara Aland and Joel Delobel, eds., New Testament Textual Criticism, Exegesis, and Early Church History, A Discussion of Methods, Netherlands: Peeters Publishers, 1994, p. 137



“A hundred years after Westcott-Hort, the goal of an edition of the New Testament ‘in the original Greek’ seems to have been reached.[…] The desired goal appears now to have been attained: to offer the writings of the New Testament in the form of the text that comes nearest to that which, from the hand of their authors or redactors, they set out on their journey in the Church of the first and second centuries.”

Kurt Aland, “The Twentieth-Century Interlude in New Testament Textual Criticism,” in Ernest Best and Robert M. Wilson, eds. Text and Interpretation: Studies in New Testament Presented to Matthew Black, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979, p.14



“Although we cannot claim ever to have established the New Testament text in its original Ur-Text form, our goal was to get as close to this Ur-Text form as was humanly possible.”

Barbara Aland, “New Testament Textual Research, Its Methods and Its Goals,” in Stanley E. Porter and Mark J. Boda, eds. Translating the New Testament: Text, Translation, Theology, Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2009, pp. 16-7

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"The earliest copyists would not have been trained professionals who made copies for a living but simply literate members of a congregation who had the time and ability to do the job. Since most, if not all, of them would have been amateurs in the art of copying, a relatively large number of mistakes no doubt crept into their texts as they reproduced them.

It is possible that after the original was placed in circulation it soon became lost or was destroyed, so all surviving copies may conceivably have derived from some single, error-prone copy made in the early stages of the book's circulation."

The text of the nt 4th ed.Bruce M metzger& Bart ehrman, Pg275



"scholars today continue to debate the possibility of non-Pauline interpolations that occurred before any of the surviving manuscripts had been produced, These examples show why it is difficult-some would say impossible—to talk about the original text of the Pauline epistles. For example, which form of 2 Corinthians is the original? Is it the text of the separate letters that were eventually combined into the one letter we now have? It would seem to be an impossible task to establish those texts since they now exist only in their edited form, with
parts omitted and/or edited to form the one letter of 2 Corinthians.
Is it the first edition of this one conglomerate letter that should be reconstructed? If so, should that letter be reconstructed with or without the interpolation in 6.14-7.1? Moreover, since Paul evidently dictated his letters, what if the amanuensis who recorded his words made a mistake? Is the original text the one with the mistake? Or is it the text
that Paul spoke—or meant to speak? If the latter, how can we possibly get back to an oral dictation that was erroneously recorded?"
The text of the nt 4th ed.Bruce M metzger& Bart ehrman, Pg273