In this tour de force, Kenyon surveys the nuances of textual criticism
for both Old Testament and New Testament. He provides a wealth of
historical information on the history of scholarship as well as his own
balanced conclusions. CONTENTS 1 Westcott and Hort and the Revised
Version 2 The Discoveries of Fifty Years 3 Developments in Textual
Theory 4 The Chester Beatty Papyri 5 Results and Speculations 6 The
Greek Old Testament Frederic G. Kenyon (1863-1952) was the Director and
Principal Librarian of the British Museum. A linguist, papyrologist, and
paleographer, he worked on the biblical texts and classical literature.
He was President of the British Academy from 1917 to 1921. Among his
many publications are 'Recent Developments in the Textual Criticism of
the Greek Bible', 'Our Bible and the Ancient Manuscripts', 'Books and
Readers in Ancient Greece and Rome', and 'The Bible and Archaeology.'