Institute for New Testament Textual Research

Institute for New Testament Textual Research (germ. "Institut für neutestamentliche Textforschung" — INTF) at the University of Münster, Westphalia, Germany. It is the principal institute for the investigation of the text of the New Testament. The INTF was founded in Münster in 1959 by Kurt Aland (1915-1994), and D.D. Litt (1915-1994). Aland was the first director of the Institute. In 1983 Barbara Aland succeeded her husband, and since 2004, Holger Strutwolf became director of the INTF.

The purpose for founding the Institute was a preparation so-called "Editio Critica Maior" based on the entire tradition of the New Testament in Greek manuscripts, early Versions and the New Testament quotations in an ancient Christian literature. Under the supervision of Kurt Aland the INTF collected almost the entire material. The first supplement of the Editio Critica Maior with the General epistles was published in 1997.

The INTF also holds some manuscripts of the New Testament, and took responsibility for registering the New Testament manuscripts, and for editing the Novum Testamentum Graece.

; Manuscripts Minuscules: 676, 798, 1432, 2444, 2445, 2446, 2460, 2754, 2755, 2756, 2793;

lectionaries: "l"¹⁷⁸¹, "l"¹⁹⁸², "l"¹⁹⁸³, "l"¹⁹⁸⁴ (lower srcipt 0233), "l"¹⁹⁸⁵, "l"¹⁹⁸⁶, "l"²⁰⁰⁵, "l"²¹³⁷, "l"²²⁰⁸, "l"²²⁷⁶.

See also

* Kurt Aland
* Editio Critica Maior

External links

* [http://www.uni-muenster.de/INTF/ INTF]
* [http://www.uni-münster.de/Rektorat/Forschungsberichte-1999-2000/fo01ic01.htm Universität Münster]
* [http://develop.servicesite.de/akdw/index.php?Itemid=293&id=212&option=com_content&task=view Novum Testamentum Graecum. Editio critica maior]

Bibliography

* B. Aland, "Neutestamentliche Textforschung, eine philologische, historische und theologische Aufgabe", in: Bilanz und Perspektiven gegenwärtiger Auslegung des Neuen Testaments, hrsg. v. F.W. Horn, Berlin/New York 1995, S. 7-29.
* B. Aland, K. Wachtel, "The Greek Minuscule Manuscripts of the New Testament", in: "The Text of the New Testament in Contemporary Research. Essays on the Status Quaestionis", ed. by B.D. Ehrman and M.W. Holmes, Grand Rapids, 1995, S. 43-60.