Textkritik des Neuen Testamentes, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint) (German Edition)
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Angesichts eines trocken aussehenden kritischen Apparates. Voll von allerlei Abkürzungen, neigt man dazu, die Kritik des Textes fiir langweilig und „ledern zu halten. Einige Beschäftigung mit jenem steifen Apparat aber zeigt zur Genüge, welche Fülle von Interessen, teils mit Bezug auf die Geschichte, teils mit Bezug auf die Kunst, er in sich birgt.
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Canon and Text of the New Testament (Classic Reprint)
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The consideration of the canon and the text of the New Testament forms a preface to the study of what is called intro duction. It is true that these two topics have sometimes of late years been remanded to the close of introduction, have been treated in a somewhat perfunctory way, and have been threatened with exclusion from the field. The earlier habit of joining them together and placing them at the front was much more correct. Now and then they were termed as a whole general introduc tion. The rest of introduction, the criticism of the contents of the books in and for themselves, was then called special introduction. The use of these names does not seem to me to be necessary. The introduction to the study of the New Testament is made up of three criticisms, of the critical treatment of three things.
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Novum Testamentum Graece: Prolegomena / Scripsit Casparus Renatus Gregory ; Additis Curis Ezrae Abbot (German Edition)
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Caspar René Gregory was an American-born German theologian.
Background
Caspar René Gregory was born on November 6, 1846 in Philadelphia. His great-grandfather, René Grégoire, was a French officer, a Protestant, who came to America to serve under Washington in the Revolution. Having married in Santo Domingo and become a planter there, he was killed in an insurrection about 1797, and his young son, Caspar Ramsay Grégoire, was sent to Philadelphia, where he became a ship-captain and ship-owner, and Anglicized his name. The latter’s son, Henry Duval Gregory, long the head of a classical school in Philadelphia and later vice-president of Girard College, was the father of Caspar René Gregory. His mother’s name was Mary Jones.
Education
Gregory was prepared for college at his father’s school, and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1864 at the age of seventeen. After three years of teaching and theological study in Philadelphia, he entered Princeton Theological Seminary, from which he graduated in 1870.
Career
Gregory continued study and literary work at Princeton until 1873, when, perhaps under incentive from Ezra Abbot, he went to Leipzig for study, and spent there the rest of his life, serving for thirty-three years as instructor and professor at the University. Before long he was invited to complete the final (eighth) edition of Tischendorf’s “Greek New Testament with Prolegomena” for which Tischendorf had left practically no materials. This great work containing, with other vast stores of admirably arranged learning, a catalogue of all known Greek manuscripts of the New Testament, engaged Gregory’s main effort for twenty years, and on its publication was at once accepted as an indispensable tool of scholarship. In preparing it he visited all the great and many of the smaller libraries of Europe and made journeys to the East.
In the meantime he had been naturalized as a German, and in 1884 became Privatdocent at Leipzig, in 1889 ausserordentlicher Professor, and in 1891 ordentlicher Honorarprofessor.
In the twenty years after the Prolegomena Gregory, whose mind seethed with plans, published many important products of a scholar’s industry, partly the fruit of four long journeys to the East. In the course of his studies he probably examined more manuscripts of the New Testament than any other man that ever lived, and he was recognized as a master in Greek paleography and in New Testament textual studies.
His ultimate aim was a fresh Greek text of the New Testament. During all these years, moreover, the inner impulse of an earnest and self-denying Christian and the intense loyalty of a foreigner to his adopted country led him to spend endeavor, time, and sentiment on a succession of Christian social undertakings and movements in Germany.
In 1914, when the War broke out, he was nearly sixty-eight years old, but within ten days he had by sheer importunity compelled the unwilling recruiting officers to accept him as an enlisted man for active service in the German army. At the front in France he insisted on serving in the trenches; he was finally commissioned lieutenant in an infantry regiment. For some time he was assigned to the hazardous and very arduous duty of seeking out and registering graves of fallen German soldiers, a valuable work for which his vocation had uniquely fitted him.
On April 9, 1917, at Neufchatel-sur-Aisne, then under bombardment, he was lying in bed because of an injury to his knee due to the fall of his horse, and was fatally wounded by a fragment of shell, dying the same day.
Achievements
Gregory was a clear, forcible, and interesting teacher of the New Testament.
A public monument has been erected to his memory near his house in Leipzig. Besides the Prolegomena, his chief books are Textkritik des Neuen Testamentes; Canon and Text of the New Testament; Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testaments; Einleitung in das Neue Testament; Die Koridetlii Evangelien, with Gustav Beermann.
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Personality
A little man, with black hair and, in later years, no hat, a keen eye, delicately cut features and sharp nose, and a pointed beard, alertness and vivacity in his every movement and utterance, unlike either German or American, his cordial ways and sincere goodness made him beloved and admired, perhaps all the more for some oddities and what seemed a certain lack of sense of proportion. He was tough and wiry, extraordinarily capable of long hours at his desk and of heavy physical labor in travel, especially on foot.
Connections
In 1886 he was married at Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Lucy Watson Thayer, daughter of Joseph Henry Thayer; they had one son and three daughters.
