Bibliographical notes for students of the New Testament

Bibliographical Notes

for
Students of the New Testament

By

ARTHUR S. PEAKE, M.A., D.D.

Ry lands Professor of Biblical Exegesis in
The University of Manchester

TO ACCOMPANY HIS LECTURE

ON

How to Study the New Testament

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BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES FOR STUDENTS OF
THE NEW TESTAMENT.

EDITIONS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT IN GREEK :
A critical text should be employed, not the " Textus Re-
ceptus," which is the text that lies behind the Authorised
Version. That by Westcott and Hort represents the dominant criti-
cal theory most consistently carried out. The Revisers' text is
largely dominated by Westcott and Hort's textual theory, but is
somewhat less remote from the "Textus Receptus". The best
edition is by Souter ; it contains a brief textual apparatus. The
"Resultant Greek Testament" by Weymouth is a text formed on
the basis of several modern critical editions. A more recent work is
by Nestle ; the text is a resultant one. A convenient edition is
issued by the British and Foreign Bible Society, with an apparatus
indicating variations from the "Textus Receptus" and the Revisers*
text. For students the edition issued by the Wiirtemberg Bible
Society is more useful on account of its superior apparatus. Of
larger editions that by Tischendorf (the 8th larger edition) has for
long been the fullest and most useful. Recently von Soden has
issued a very important text with extensive apparatus and proleg-
omena, expounding a new theory, which will form the subject of
investigation and discussion for a long time to come. A manual
edition of the text has also been published. Other editions by Tre-
gelles, Baljon, and B. Weiss.

GRAMMARS, LEXICONS, CONCORDANCES : The
standard grammar till recently has been that of Winer, translated and
edited with many improvements and additions by W. F. Moulton.
While still valuable it is to some extent antiquated and is in course of
being superseded by the work of J. H. Moulton, of which so far
the Prolegomena only has appeared. The latest German edition of
Winer, by Schmiedel, is still incomplete. Blass has published an
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and revised edition of the original has been published. The second
English edition is from an earlier edition of the German. There are
several elementary grammars, that by J. H. Moulton may be mentioned,
and Nunn's "Syntax of New Testament Greek". The standard
Lexicon is Thayer's translation of Grimm. It is now hardly on the
level of present knowledge, and will no doubt be superseded in course
of time. Deissmann's "Bible Studies" opened a new epoch by
showing that the Greek of the New Testament is the common col-
loquial language of the time. Preuschen's Lexicon (Greek-German)
is disappointing. Cremer's " Biblisch-theologisches Worterbuch"
is accessible in English from an early edition of the original. The
best Concordance to the Greek Testament is that by Moulton and
Geden, the earlier work by Bruder was based on the " Textus Re-
ceptus," but takes account of the critical texts. Those who know no
Greek will find "The Englishman's Greek Concordance" of service.
Young's "Analytical Concordance" and Strong's "Exhaustive
Concordance " are the best for students of the English Bible.

DICTIONARIES OF THE BIBLE : For these see " Biblio-
graphical Notes for Students of the Old Testament ".

CANON AND TEXT : Gregory's " Canon and Text of the
New Testament " is the most comprehensive work embracing both
subjects, but disappointing and too popular for a standard work ;
Souter's " The Text and Canon of the New Testament " is much
briefer, and in parts too learned for the ordinary reader. Westcott's
" The Canon of the New Testament" is solid and learned, but needs
supplementing ; for this purpose the section on the Canon in Jiilicher's
" Introduction " may be recommended. The most comprehensive
work is Zahn's " Geschichte des neutestamentlichen Kanons ". A
brief sketch of his conclusions is given in his "Grundriss". With
these should be mentioned his " Forschungen," in several volumes
written mainly by himself but including contributions by other
scholars. A briefer history than Zahn's is Leipoldt's " Geschichte
des neutestamentlichen Kanons ". For Textual Criticism, apart from
the books by Gregory and Souter already mentioned, there is
Scrivener's " A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New
Testament ". The most serviceable work for the student is Kenyon's
" Handbook to the Textual Criticism of the New Testament" (2nd
edition), which may, however Idc supplemented by Lake's " The

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Text of the New Testament ". There are several short manuals,
those by Hammond, Warfield, and Vincent may be mentioned. It
would be advisable for the student to work through one of these
manuals (Kenyon's by preference) before taking up the Introduction
to Westcott and Hort's " New Testament in Greek," which is a
classic. Nestle's " Introduction to the Criticism of the Greek New
Testament " is a very learned work written from a somewhat different
standpoint than that of Westcott and Hort (Enghsh translation from
2nd edition. The 3rd thoroughly revised German edition was pub-
lished in 1 909). There are important articles in the Dictionaries ;
Burkitt's " Text and Versions " in the " Encyclopaedia Biblica " and
Turner's " Text of the New Testament "in " Murray's Illustrated
Bible Dictionary" may be specially mentioned, and the articles by
the latter in " The Journal of Theological Studies," vols. x. and xi.

TRANSLATIONS INTO MODERN ENGLISH : Moffatt's
" The New Testament : A New Translation " may be specially
recommended. His "^Historical New Testament " arranges the books
in what he regards as the order of composition, gives a translation of
them (not identical with that in the preceding work), and much critical
discussion. Other good translations are, " The Twentieth Century
New Testament" and Weymouth's^" The New Testament in Modern
English ". Revisions of the Authorised Version may be found in
"The Corrected English New Testament" and "The 1911 Ter-
centenary Commemoration Bible ". A new Roman Catholic transla-
tion, based on the original, not on the Vulgate, has begun to appear
under the title " The Westminster Version of the Sacred Scriptures ".
Weizs'acker's translation into German and Lasserre's spirited rendering
of the Gospels into French (" Les Saintes Evangiles") may also be
mentioned.

NEW TESTAMENT INTRODUCTION : For much fuller
ists than can be given here the writer may refer to the Bibliography
appended to his " Critical Introduction to the New Testament".
Very elaborate lists may be found in Moffatt's " Introduction to the
Literature of the New Testament," which is our standard work on
the subject. Among translations from German the works of B.
Wfiiss, Zahn, and Jiilicher are the most important. The leading
work on the " advanced " side is by Holtzmann (untranslated and
now old). Salmon's Introduction is somewhat antiquated, but not

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out of date. It is learned, lucid, lively, and one-sided, the work of a
clever advocate. Of smaller works those by Adeney, Bacon, and
Allen and Grensted call for mention. In addition to books which
cover the whole of the New Testament there are many on special
parts of the subject. Here only a selection of the more recent can be
given. On the Gospels : Stanton's " The Gospels as Historical Docu-
ments " promises to be when completed our best and most comprehensive
discussion. Burkitt's " The Gospel History and Its Transmission " is
very fresh and suggestive. There are smaller works by Pullan, J. A.
Robinson, and Holdsworth. In German Baur's " Die Evangelien "
deserves to be mentioned, and not for its historical importance alone ;
and Weizsacker's " Untersuchungen iiber die evangelische Geschichte,"
though just half a century old, is by no means antiquated. E. A.
Abbott's series entitled " Diatessarica " now numbers several volumes.
For the criticism of the Synoptic Gospels in addition to the works by
Stanton, Burkitt, Abbott, and Robinson already mentioned, " Oxford
Studies in the Synoptic Problem," Hawkins' " Horae Synopticae,"
Buckley's " Introduction to the Synoptic Problem," and Burkitt's
" The Earliest Sources for the Life of Jesus " may be named ; and in
German Wernle's " Die synoptische Frage," Wellhausen's " Einleitung
in die drei ersten Evangelien," and an important series of elaborate
discussions by B. Weiss (" Das Marcusevangelium und seine synop-
tischen Parallelen," " Das Matthausevangelium und seine Lucas-
parallelen," Die Quellen des Lukas-EvangeUums," " Die Quellen des
synoptischen Uberlieferung "). The first four of Harnack's " Beitrage
zur Einleitung in das Neue Testament " are concerned mainly with
the Lucan writing, but the second, " Spriiche und Reden Jesu " (Eng.
tr. "The Sayings of Jesus") is a very noteworthy discussion of the
non-Marcan source of Matthew and Luke, commonly known as Q.
Special aspects of the problem are examined in various works such as
" Das aheste Evangelium," by J. Weiss. Books on the Life (e.g.
Keim or B. Weiss) or Teaching (e.g. Wendt) of Jesus often contain
critical discussions of the Gospels. The work of comparing the
Gospels is much facilitated by a synopsis giving the parallel sections
in parallel columns. Rushbrooke's "Synopticon" surpasses all in its
typographical devices ; Huck's " Synopse der drei ersten Evangelien "
is the handiest for ordinary use ; both of these are in Greek ; there are
others by Tischendorf, Wright, and Campbell. For English students

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" The Synoptic Gospels," by J. M. Thompson, may be recom-
mended.

On the Fourth Gospel the literature tends to fall into two
divisions, those books which affirm and those which deny the apostolic
authorship. Of the earlier books Sanday's " Authorship and Histori-
cal Character of the Fourth Gospel " and Lightfoot's " Biblical
Essays" may be specially mentioned, also Ezra Abbot's paper on
"The Authorship of the Fourth Gospel : External Evidence ". A
comprehensive account of the debate in modern times is given in Wat-
kins' " Modern Criticism and the Fourth Gospel " ; a much briefer work
dealing with the recent discussions is Jackson's " The Fourth Gospel ".
But the most important survey is contained in Sanday's " The
Criticism of the Fourth Gospel ". The most notable contributions
on a large scale published recently in English are Drummond's " The
Character and Authorship of the Fourth Gospel " (conservative) and
Bacon's " The Fourth Gospel in Research and Debate " (advanced).
A briefer work by Schmiedel " The Johannine Writings " (radical).
There are large volumes by Overbeck (posthumous) and Clemen in
German. The most striking change in the situation recently has been
the growing tendency to regard the Gospel as constructed out of
earlier sources. Wendt has for long denied its unity ; his views may
be seen in "The Gospel According to St. John : An Inquiry into Its
Genesis and Historical Value ". More recent theories are specially
connected with the names of Wellhausen, Schwartz, and Spitta. On
the other side, B. Weiss " Das Johannesevangelium als einheitliches
Werk".

On the Acts of the Apostles it may suffice to mention Ramsay's
" St. Paul the Traveller and the Roman Citizen," " Pauline and
Other Studies," and " Luke the Physician " ; Chase " The Histori-
cal Credibility of the Acts of the Apostles " ; Harnack, " Luke the
Physician," "The Acts of the Apostles," "The Date of the Acts
and of the Synoptic Gospels"; Norden's " Agnostos Theos " with
Harnack's reply, " 1st die Rede des Paulus in Athen ein urspriing-
licher Bestandteil der Apostelgeschichte " ?

On the Pauline Epistles : Godet, " Introduction to the New
Testament : the Pauline Epistles," Knowling, " The Witness of the
Epistles " and " The Testimony of St. Paul to Christ " ; Shaw,
" The Pauline Epistles," may be mentioned among the larger books,

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Findlay, " The Epistles of Paul the Apostle " among the smaller.
R. Scott's " The Pauline Epistles " is much too viewy to be a safe
guide. The most striking contribution of late is Lake's " The
Earlier Epistles of St. Paul," and that not simply for the critical
problems. It will presumably be followed by a volume dealing with
the later epistles. There is, of course, a large literature on individual
epistles or groups of epistles, but it must be passed over here, and
similarly the special literature on the other epistles.

On the Revelation of John : Vischer, " Die Offenbarung
Johannis"; Spitta, "Die Offenbarung des Johannes untersucht " ;
J. Weiss, " Die Offenbarung des Johannes" ; Wellhausen, " Analyse
der Offenbarung Johannis" — all advocate the composite authorship
of the work. Gunkel's " Schopfung und Chaos" introduced a new
era in the interpretation of the book. See further Porter, " The
Messages of the Apocalyptic Writers " ; Ramsay, "The Letters to
the Seven Churches " ; Charles, " Studies in the Apocalypse ".

It must, of course, be remembered that some of the most impor-
tant critical discussions are to be found in commentaries, in articles
both in dictionaries and periodicals, in volumes of essays, and other
comprehensive works. But it would demand a great deal of space
to deal even superficially with a literature so vast.

HISTORY : For the contemporary history of the New
Testament the foremost authority is Schiirer's " The Jewish People
in the Time of Christ ". Another large work is Hausrath's " History
of the New Testament Times". Of smaller works Muirhead's
" The Times of Christ " may be commended.

For the Life of Christ there are well-known popular works
by Farrar, Geikie, and D. Smith. Edersheim's "The Life and
Times of Jesus the Messiah" is valuable for its illustration of the
Gospels from Jewish sources. Fairbairn's " Studies in the Life of
Christ " is fresh and stimulating, with important apologetic discussions.
Three students' books may be recommended, Sanday's " Outlines of
the Life of Christ," " Kent's The Life and Teaching of Jesus," and
Rhees' " The Life of Jesus of Nazareth ". Of the larger German
works (translated into English) may be mentioned Keim's " Jesus of
Nazara " (best of the rationalistic Lives, but rests on incorrect solution
of Synoptic Problem) ; Weiss's " Life of Christ " (on a sounder critical
basis than Keim, learned and thorough rather than brilliant) ; Oscar

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Holtzmann " The Life of Jesus " (too commonplace). Bousset's
" Jesus " is a sympathetic and admirably written sketch from advanced
standpoint.

For the history of the Apostolic Age the following may be men-
tioned : Weizsacker, "The Apostolic Age of the Christian Church,"
a brilliant work by a master, radical in criticism and much too
negative in its treatment of Acts, but remarkable for its power of
combination ; McGiffert, " History of Christianity in the Apostolic
Age," able, sounder than Weizsacker but less brilliant ; Bartlet,
" The Apostolic Age," conservative, but independent and original ;
Ropes, " The Apostolic Age " (good). A brief sketch by von
Dobschiitz, " The Apostolic Age," may be added. Other works
covering a larger field but including the Apostolic Age are Pfleiderer's
*' Primitive Christianity," learned and illuminating though often
extreme ; Wernle's " The Beginnings of Christianity," too slashing
but written with glow and enthusiasm ; J. Weiss, " Das Urchris-
tentum," fresh, thorough, and suggestive ; H. Achelis, " Das Chris-
tentum in den ersten drei Jahrhunderten ". All of these works deal
of course with Paul. Among the earlier Lives of Paul those by
Conybeare and Howson, Lewin and Farrar may be mentioned ; of
more recent works Ramsay's " St. Paul the Traveller " ; Bacon's
" Story of St. Paul " ; Clemen's " Paulus " ; Weinel's " St. Paul ".

COMMENTARIES : It is impracticable to give any detailed in-
formation on so large a field. A pretty full list is given in the writer's
*' Critical Introduction to the New Testament ". Speaking generally
British commentaries are better for the Old Testament than for the New,
though there are of course several excellent examples of the latter.
The chief series are " The International Critical Commentary " ; " The
Expositor's Greek Testament " ; " The Cambridge Greek Testa-
ment " ; "The Cambridge Bible" ; "The Century Bible " ; "The
Westminster Commentaries"; "The Westminster New Testa-
ment ". Older commentaries are " The Speaker's," " The Pulpit,"
and Alford. The chief German work of this class which has been trans-
lated is that by H. A. W. Meyer. Of commentaries in German
the most recent edition of Meyer should perhaps be accorded the first
place, though other series, such as " Hand-commentar zum N.T."
(advanced) and Zahn's " Kommentar sum N.T." (conservative),
stand worthily by its side. The later editions of Meyer are entirely

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new works by fresh writers. A popular work, " Die Schriften des
N.T." is edited by J. Weiss, and a commentary with special attention
to philology and contemporary thought, " Handbuch zum N.T.," by
Lietzmann. Apart from these series there are of course numerous
commentaries of which the following may be enumerated : Plummer's
Matthew, Swete's Mark and The Apocalypse ; Menzies' " The
Earliest Gospel " and 2 Corinthians ; Bacon, " The Beginnings of
Gospel Story " ; Montefiore, " The Synoptic Gospels " ; Loisy,
" Les Evangiles Synoptiques" and " Le Quatrieme Evangile " ;
Wellhausen, on Mark, Matthew and Luke ; Westcott, John,
Hebrews, and Johannine Epistles ; Lightfoot, Galatians, Philippians,
Colossians, and Philemon, " Notes on Epistles of St. Paul" ; J. A.
Robinson, Ephesians ; G. Milligan, Thessalonians ; Hort, James,
1 Peter, Rev. i-iii.

THEOLOGY : The following works deal with the whole field
of New Testament Theology : Reuss, " History of Christian Theology
in the Apostolic Age " (English translation edited and annotated,
often polemically, by Dale) ; B. Weiss, " Biblical Theology of the
New Testament " (very complete and careful collection of materials,
less happy in construction, and prosaic in quality) ; Beyschlag, " New
Testament Theology " (perhaps the best accessible in English, but
eccentric in its exposition of New Testament Christology) ; Stevens,
" Theology of the New Testament " (solid, competent, and trust-
worthy rather than brilliant) ; Sheldon, " New Testament Theology "
(a useful compendium) ; Adeney, " Theology of the New Testa-
ment " (an excellent small manual). Wernle's " The Beginnings of
Christianity " largely covers the ground. There are several important
untranslated works, of which Holtzmann's " Neutestamentliche Theo-
logie " holds the foremost place ; there are other treatises by Feine,
Schlatter, and Weinel.

On the teaching of Jesus there are several works. The Synoptic
and Johannine presentations are commonly kept distinct, and the
distribution of the teaching in the Fourth Gospel between Jesus and
the evangelist varies according to the view taken of the critical and
historical problems. Wendt, " The Teaching of Jesus," deals with
both the Synoptic and the Johannine accounts. He regards them as
harmonious, and the latter as in large measure a faithful representa-
tion. On the Synoptic Teaching Bruce published several very sym-

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pathetic books : " The Kingdom of God," " The Training of the
Twelve," " The Parabolic Teaching of Christ," and " The GaUlean
Gospel ". Denney's " Jesus and the Gospel " is designed to show
that the Church is justified in its valuation of Jesus by His own teach-
ing as recorded in the two main Synoptic sources. Other works are :
von Schrenck, "Jesus and His Teaching"; Grist, "The Historic
Christ in the Faith of To-day " ; Garvie, " Studies in the Inner Life
of Jesus ". Moffatt's " The Theology of the Gospels " is not strictly
an exposition of the teaching of Jesus, but naturally contains much
on that subject. Recently a considerable literature has grown up
around the question of the eschatological teaching of Jesus. The
development of the subject may be studied in Schweitzer's " Von
Reimarus zu Wrede" (translated under the title " The Quest of the
Historical Jesus"), a brilliantly written, but avowedly one-sided
book, designed to show that we are driven either to a thorough-going
eschatalogical interpretation or to a scepticism Hke that in Wrede's
" Das Messiasgeheimniss in den Evangelien " ; Sanday's " The Life
of Christ in Recent Research " should be consulted on this and other
problems indicated by the title. Of the literature from 1 892 onwards
the following may be selected : J. Weiss, " Die Predigt Jesu vom
Reiche Gottes " (regarded by Schweitzer as epoch-making, but only
in its first edition ; the second, which appeared ten years later in a
much larger form, modifying the extreme one-sidedness which aroused
Schweitzer's enthusiasm) ; Schweitzer, " Das Messianitats- und
Leidensgeheimniss " and "The Quest of the Historical Jesus";
Holtzmann's " Das Messianische Bewusstsein Jesu " ; Loisy,
" L'Evangile et I'Eglise " ; Tyrrell, " Christianity at the Cross-
Roads" ; Muirhead, "The Eschatology of Jesus" ; von Dobschiitz,
" The Eschatology of the Gospels " (to be commended) ; E. F.
Scott, " The Kingdom and the Messiah " (a balanced statement of
the eschatological view) ; Emmett, " The Eschatological Question in
the Gospels " (useful statement and criticism) ; Dewick, " Primitive
Christian Eschatology " ; Worsley, " The Apocalypse of Jesus " ;
Jackson, "The Eschatology of Jesus". Shailer Mathews, "The
Messianic Hope in the New Testament," and Sharman, "The
Teaching of Jesus About the Future " are concerned with the theme
in a more detached way

The Histories of the Apostolic Age usually contain some account

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of the theology of the New Testament writers. There are also
numerous works on different types of theology. On the Pauline
theology the following may be selected from an extensive literature :
Pfleiderer, " Paulinism " (stimulating and incisive ; Eng. trans,
from first edition, the author's views altered, and not for the better, in
the second edition and in later works, including his " Primitive
Christianity ") ; Stevens, " The Pauline Theology " (largely from
standpoint of B. Weiss) ; Bruce, " St. Paul's Conception of Chris-
tianity " (more satisfactory than Stevens, but tends to regard as
apologetic buttresses of the system some things that belong to its
foundations); Wrede, "Paul" (stimulating and provocative, his
view that Paul radically transformed the religion of Jesus led to
considerable discussion in Germany) ; Weinel, " St. Paul " ; Garvie
" Studies of Paul and his Gospel " ; Somerville, " St. Paul's Con-
ception of Christ " ; H. A. A. Kennedy, " St. Paul's Conception of
the Last Things ". Schweitzer has in his " Paul and his Recent
Interpreters " sought to show that the attempts to interpret Paul as
other than an out-and-out eschatologist have broken down. Great
stress has recently been laid on Paul's relation to Greek mystery
religions, notably by Reitzenstein, " Die Hellenistischen Mysterien-
religionen " ; see also P. Gardner, " The Religious Experience of St.
Paul " ; Lake, " The Earlier Epistles of St. Paul," and Montefiore,
"Judaism and St. Paul". A very full and careful examination is
given by H. A. A. Kennedy in " St. Paul and the Mystery
Religions ".

On the J ohannine Theology : Stevens, "The Johannine Theo-
logy"; E. F. Scott, "The Fourth Gospel". On the Epistle to the
Hebrews : Bruce, " The Epistle to the Hebrews " ; G. Milligan,
" The Theology of the Epistle to the Hebrews ".

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