Methoden vergleichen

	Variant Collation and CBGM	Historical-Critical Exegesis
Fachgebiet	Religious Studies	Religious Studies
Familie	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Entstehungsjahr	2004	1975
Urheber	Gerd Mink (Institut für neutestamentliche Textforschung, Münster)	Enlightenment biblical scholarship; methodized by Krentz, surveyed by Barton
Typ	Coherence-based pipeline for genealogy in contaminated traditions	Integrative exegetical pipeline establishing a text's original historical meaning
Wegweisende Quelle	Mink, G. (2004). Problems of a highly contaminated tradition: the New Testament. Stemmata of variants as a source of a genealogy for witnesses. In P. van Reenen, A. den Hollander, & M. van Mulken (Eds.), Studies in Stemmatology II (pp. 13-85). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. ISBN: 9789027232229	Krentz, E. (1975). The Historical-Critical Method. Philadelphia: Fortress Press (Guides to Biblical Scholarship). ISBN: 9780800604608
Aliasnamen	Coherence-Based Genealogical Method, CBGM, Apparatus Criticus Construction, Genealogical Coherence Analysis	Historical-Critical Method, Grammatico-Historical Method, Biblical Criticism, Critical Exegesis
Verwandt	4	4
Zusammenfassung	Variant collation and the Coherence-Based Genealogical Method (CBGM), developed by Gerd Mink at the Institute for New Testament Textual Research in Münster, address the central obstacle to editing the Greek New Testament: contamination. Because medieval scribes routinely copied from several exemplars at once, the New Testament tradition is too intermixed for a classical bifurcating stemma. Mink's solution, set out in his 2004 chapter in Studies in Stemmatology II, shifts the unit of analysis from whole manuscripts to individual variation passages. At each passage the editor decides which reading gave rise to which (a local stemma), and the method then aggregates these local decisions, using the coherence of agreement among witnesses, to infer the global flow of text and the relationships among witnesses. CBGM now underlies the Editio Critica Maior and the modern Nestle-Aland and UBS Greek New Testaments.	Historical-critical exegesis is the dominant scholarly approach to interpreting the Bible: it reads each text in its original language, genre, and historical setting in order to recover what its author meant and what its first audience would have understood. Rather than reading scripture through later doctrine or present concerns, it asks the historical question first. The method is not one technique but an integrated family that draws on textual, source, form, and redaction criticism, applying them within a grammatico-historical reading. Edgar Krentz's compact 1975 The Historical-Critical Method describes its rise, goals, and procedures, while John Barton's 2007 The Nature of Biblical Criticism offers a philosophical defense, arguing that biblical criticism is at heart a disciplined attention to what the text means in its literary and historical context.