"F. F. Bruce commented on the first edition, "I am glad to give it my warm commendation. As an introduction to the criticism of the New Testament it has . . . no equal in English." Since Bruce's comments on the original edition thirty years ago, this clear and comprehensive introduction to New Testament textual criticism has remained a popular text for beginning and intermediate students."A celebrated pedagogue who has kept abreast of hi ..."
"It is good to have Greenlee's primer available again, for nowhere else will one find explanations of and introductions to so wide a range of critical editions of the New Testament - from Tischendorf to UBS - including the lesser known but still valuable editions of Souter, Merk, Bover and Legg. The student who works through Greenlee's discussion of the praxis of textual criticism will learn the craft from a reliable guide.(1996)."