Abstract:
The application of the Coherence-Based Genealogical Method (CBGM) to New Testament texts has brought to light peculiar perspectives on the management of textual criticism with the initial text (Ausgangstext) and with the history of the text during the first millennium, especially in response to textual contamination. This doctoral thesis is a historical, bibliographical, and practical research, which analyzes the improvements and contributions arising from the Coherence-Based Genealogical Method. In this way, first, the comprehension of the emergence of the New Testament text, textual criticism and the Genealogical Method based on Coherence was presented, highlighting the main concepts and the characteristics of the Editio Critica Maior of Acts of the Apostles - edition carried out from the application of the method by a committee of the Institute for New Testament Text Research in Münster. With this, a diachronic study of the method was carried out from the 1980s to the present day. In sequence, the Coherence-Based Genealogical Method was replicated to seven (7) alterations made because of the method in the book of Acts (Acts 5:33/12, 9:12/6-10, 13:33/16, 16:12/12-16, 16:13/26-28, 16:28/4-14, and 20:21/34). The choice of variants was made by sampling according to the type of textual change. Finally, based on the study of the method, its historical-conceptual development and replication in the variants, the potentialities and weaknesses of adopting the method for designating the initial text as well as for the study of textual transmission and for the field of textual criticism were established.
