New Testament Textual Criticism and Digital Humanities

Clivaz, Claire
(2025) The Oxford Handbook of the Textual Criticism of the Bible — accepted/in-press

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The relationship between New Testament textual criticism (NTTC) and digital humanities (DH) is a successful one, as demonstrated by the analysis of five ERC grants in NTTC and DH, awarded in the last decade. Along with other features of the field, these projects highlight the fast evolution of digital editing of the NT and multilingualism, and the importance of domain centered research infrastructures. One DH approach has yet to be explored in NTTC: the automated recognition of handwritten characters. This chapter demonstrates that NTTC is boosting New Testament studies with access to new, digitized research material, while remaining grounded in a well-established tradition of close reading. It takes advantage of digital methodologies while honoring humanities core-skills.
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Clivaz, C. (2025). New Testament Textual Criticism and Digital Humanities. In Crawford Sidnie, Wasserman Tommy (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the Textual Criticism of the Bible. Oxford University Press. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/220265