How This Edition Was Made

Where the text came from

The source of record is the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek copy, shelfmark Exeg. 78 sb, digital object bsb10409894. The volume is Ferdinand Christian Baur, Kritische Untersuchungen über die kanonischen Evangelien, ihr Verhältniß zu einander, ihren Charakter und Ursprung (Tübingen: Ludw. Fr. Fues, 1847). The catalog extent is X + 626 pages. Printed page N is scan N+14. Page 391, the section title Das Evangelium des Lucas, is scan 00405. Scans 5–14 are the roman pages I–X. An optical scan was used only to find a line. It never decided a letter, a Greek accent, a citation, or a page break.

What was translated

The English covers Baur’s preface, printed pages III–VI, and the Luke treatise, printed pages 391–531. Page II is the blank back of the title page. Page 392 is blank. The treatise, as his contents page prints it, is the introduction (393–397), part I, the Marcionite Gospel (397–427), part II, the original Gospel of Luke (427–501), and part III, the canonical Gospel of Luke, through page 531.

The title page and the printed contents of the whole volume are not chapters of this book. John (pages 77–389), Mark (pages 535–567), and Matthew (pages 571–621) are not in this book.

How the English was checked

The English of the Luke treatise was compared with those page images twice. The first reading was made while the book was translated, in batches (pages 391–397, 398–412, and 412–531), and the confirmed corrections were put into the text. The second reading was a fresh comparison of pages 391–531 with the same images, sentence by sentence, including the footnotes. It checked negations, speakers, quotations, Greek and Latin, biblical citations, names, and the words that fall at a page turn. The confirmed corrections from that reading are in this book. Pages 463–480 and 481–498 had none. A page marker records where the printed page turns. It does not end the sentence.

W. C. Muenchow IV also read the whole translation himself, in addition to those two comparisons with the page images.

The corrections that changed the sense, or put back Greek and Latin that the first English had supplied, include these.

• Page 399. The resistance is that of the Nazarenes alone.
• Pages 400 and 401. The print is σοφία θεοῦ, with no article. A supplied τοῦ was removed. On page 401 the print has οὐαὶ, the “woes” of Luke 11. A supplied κατ᾽ ἐνέργειαν was removed.
• Page 403. The citation is Romans 4:26, as printed. Baur’s abbreviated Greek is kept. The full clauses the first English supplied are not on the page.
• Page 406. The Latin is in mediam rem. The dash in the quotation is kept.
• Page 410. Verdienstlosigkeit is the lack of merit of human doing, in Luke 17:7–10. The first English stated the opposite.
• Page 415. In Jerome’s Latin, Paul is the object of the burning hostility, for alleged blasphemy against Moses, not the one who feels it.
• Page 418. The dash in et ad plenit. — condidit is kept. It marks a span, not two words standing together.
• Page 423. Fairness toward the Church Fathers and the task itself both require that the factors be weighed.
• Page 434. The note cites verse 55, not verse 33.
• Page 449. The print is πολλοὺς, written with the ου ligature.
• Page 450. Verses 10f. are the sayings that follow the parable, not the parable itself.
• Page 453. The friends receive those who depart.
• Page 456. One passage on the law is what Luke has passed over.
• Page 458. The print is ἁψάμενός μου, written with the ου ligature, and συνέχουσι and ἀποθλίβουσι have no final ν.
• Page 462. The print is βλέπον, not βλέπων.
• Page 475. The print is K. 23, that is, chapter 23 of Matthew.
• Page 515. The article τοῦ before Ἰωνᾶ is restored.
• Page 517. The πολλοί have the wider compass. The first English gave it to the αὐτόπται.
• Page 522. The note prints vergessen, “forgotten,” not “forgiven.”
• Page 529. The print is πανοῦργος, written with the ου ligature, and the citation 2 Corinthians 12:7 is kept as printed.

Notes

Baur’s notes sit with the page that prints them, under Baur’s notes [p. N]. They are numbered on that page. A note that continues onto the next page is marked as continuing, and the continuation is labeled on the following page.

How the Greek was settled

On pages 499–515 a letter count reported about twenty spellings that are not ordinary Greek. Those signs are the ου ligature of the 1847 type. The English keeps the ordinary spelling. One article had dropped out, before Ἰωνᾶ on page 515, and it has been restored. The print reads εἰ μὴ τὸ σημεῖον τοῦ Ἰωνᾶ. The article is the same τοῦ as in ἡ βασιλεία τοῦ θεοῦ on that page.

Readings left as printed

These were left as they stand because the scan or the print does not justify a further change. They are not silent repairs. Baur is not corrected from a later editor.

• Page 402. The pronoun before κεραία is written more compactly than the clear μου a few lines above. It was not confirmed as a different word. The English keeps μου.
• Page 463. Matthew 9:5f. is left as printed.
• Page 467. οὐδεὶς δὲ … verse 26 is left as printed.
• Page 471. The text cites Matthew 26:5–12, and the footnote on the same page cites Matthew 16:5–12. Both are left as printed.
• Page 473. Matthew 7–12 is left as printed.
• Page 476. Verse 35 in Matthew 24:28, and the parallel of 19:47 with Matthew 21:23, are left as printed.
• Page 477. Wars and devastations, verses 1–11, is left as printed.
• Pages 478–479. The footnote that begins at the bottom of page 478 continues at the top of page 479, and the English keeps that split.
• The parable of the noble man is left at 18:12, as printed.
• Luke 11:42 is left beside Matthew 23:33, as printed.

What was not added

The treatises on John, Mark, and Matthew in the same volume are not translated here. Baur’s argument is not rewritten from Hahn, Ritschl, Schwegler, Zahn, Harnack, or from the wording of this house.

This note is editorial framing by the present editor. It is not Baur’s text.