Preserving Ancient New Testament Manuscripts for a Modern World

[Guest Kurt]

The Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts (CSNTM), under the umbrella of The Center for the Research of Early Christian Documents (CRECD), exists for the following purposes:

1. To make digital photographs of extant Greek New Testament manuscripts so that such images can be preserved, duplicated without deterioration, and accessed by scholars doing textual research.

2. To utilize developing technologies (OCR, MSI, etc.) to read these manuscripts and create exhaustive collations.

3. To analyze individual scribal habits in order to better predict scribal tendencies in any given textual problem.

4. To publish on various facets of New Testament textual criticism.

5. To develop electronic tools for the examination and analysis of New Testament manuscripts.

6. To cooperate with other institutes in the great and noble task of determining the wording of theautographa of the New Testament.

 

On 13 September 2002, Dr. Daniel B. Wallace founded the Center to utilize emerging technologies to preserve and study Greek New Testament manuscripts. During its brief history, CSNTM has collaborated with more than 40 institutions on 4 continents to produce more than 350,000 images of New Testament manuscripts. In the process, the Center has discovered more than 80 New Testament manuscripts. View these images at CSNTM´s  digital library.