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Ernst Cadman Colwell (May 19, 1901 – 1974) was an American biblical scholar, textual critic, and palaeographer. He worked at University of Chicago.[1]

Life

Colwell recognized an extraordinary textual degree between Minuscule 2427 and Codex Vaticanus. According to him the codex 2427 preserved a "primitive text" of the Gospel of Mark ("Archaic Mark").[2] He found that from 73 singular readings of Codex Vaticanus, 46 are shared with codex 2427.[3] Colwell examined Minuscule 330 and found that the text of the Pauline epistles of this codex is very close textually to the codices 451, 2400, 2492.[4]

Colwell examined corrections in Papyrus 66, Codex Sinaiticus, Codex Alexandrinus, and Codex Washingtonianus, and found textual relationship between them. Colwell in his analysis eliminated singular readings.[5]

Colwell discovered that “Definite predicate nouns which precede the verb usually lack the article… a predicate nominative which precedes the verb cannot be translated as an indefinite or a ‘qualitative’ noun solely because of the absence of the article; if the context suggests that the predicate is definite, it should be translated as a definite noun…”[6]

In 1959 Colwell together with M. M. Parvis elaborated a new method of multiple readings textual criticism of the New Testament.[1] This method usually is known as the Claremont Profile Method. They changed the coverage of the list of textual variations from triple to multiple variations. This method was developed in part to provide a rational selection of Greek minuscule manuscripts for the International Greek New Testament Project (IGNTP).[7]

He also examined language of the fourth Gospel.[1]

See also

Works

  • The character of the Greek of the Fourth Gospel. Parallels to the "Aramaisms" of the Fourth Gospel from Epictetus and the papyri, Chicago, IL 1931
  • The Four Gospels of Karahissar I, History and Text, Chicago, 1936, pp. 170-222.
  • An Ancient Text of the Gospel of Mark, The Emory University, Quarterly 1 (1945), ss. 65-75.
  • A Beginner's Reader Grammar for New Testament Greek, by E. C. Colwell and E. W. Tune. Review and Expositor 62 (Fall 1965), pp. 485-487.
  • Studies in Methodology in Textual Criticism of the New Testament (Leiden 1969)

References

  1. ^ a b c "Ernest Cadman Colwell". Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL) (in German). cols. 256–274.
  2. ^ E. C. Colwell, An Ancient Text of the Gospel of Mark, The Emory University, Quarterly 1 (1945), pp. 65-75; E. C. Colwell, Some Unusual Abbreviations in ms. 2427, Studia evangelica, ed. K. Aland, F.L. Cross, T & U 73, Berlin 1959, pp. 778-779.
  3. ^ M. M. Mitchell, P. A. Duncan, Chicago’s “Archaic Mark” (MS 2427): A Reintroduction to its Enigmas and a Fresh Collation of its Readings, Novum Testamentum, XLVIII, 1 (2006), p. 5.
  4. ^ Ernst Cadman Colwell, The Four Gospels of Karahissar I, History and Text, Chicago, 1936, pp. 170-222.
  5. ^ David C. Parker, An Introduction to the New Testament Manuscripts and their Texts, p. 163.
  6. ^ E. C. Colwell, A Definite Rule for the Use of the Article in the Greek New Testament, in JBL 52 (1933), p. 20.
  7. ^ Wolfgang Haase, Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt, Walter de Gruyter, 1992, p. 154.

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