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 SUMMARY OF CONTENTS OF INTRODUCTION

PREFATORY REMARKS

PART I

THE NEED OF CRITICISM FOR THE TEXT OF THE NEW TESTAMENT

A. Transmission by writing

B. Transmission by printed editions

C. History of present edition

PART II

THE METHODS OF TEXTUAL CRITICISM

Section I. Internal Evidence of Readings

A. Intrinsic Probability

B. Transcriptional Probability

Section II. Internal Evidence of Documents

Section III. Genealogical Evidence

A. Simple or divergent genealogy

B. Genealogy and number

C. Manner of discovering genealogy

D. Complications of genealogy by mixture

E. Applications of genealogy

F. Variable use of genealogy according to unequal preservation of documents