A Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament

A Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament, Bruce M. Metzger's standard scholarly commentary from the United Bible Societies, second edition 1994, sets out the textual-critical reasoning behind the United Bible Societies' Greek New Testament, explaining why its editorial committee favored certain variant readings over others. Its strength is that it is the working reference for New Testament textual criticism, written by the committee chair himself, from the field's own coordinating publisher. Its limit is that it argues for the committee's own editorial choices, so a genuinely disputed reading should also be checked against the wider textual-critical literature responding to it. This record's title was corrected in this pass: it had carried the author's own name folded into the title field rather than the book's actual published title alone, confirmed against multiple independent bibliographic listings that all give the title without the author folded in; the author, publisher and year were already accurate.