Textual criticism of the New Testament is the identification of textual variants, or different versions of the New Testament, whose goals include identification of transcription errors, analysis of versions, and attempts to reconstruct the original text. Its main focus is studying the textual variants in the New Testament.
Byzantine illuminated manuscript, 1020
Westcott and Hort's Introduction and Appendix (1882)
Kurt Aland
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Kurt Aland was a German theologian and biblical scholar who specialized in New Testament textual criticism. He founded the Institut für neutestamentliche Textforschung in Münster and served as its first director from 1959 to 1983. He was one of the principal editors of Nestle–Aland – Novum Testamentum Graece for the Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft and The Greek New Testament for the United Bible Societies.
Kurt Aland's 70th Birthday from left to right: Kurt Aland, Hermann Kunst, President of Germany Walter Scheel, Wilfried Schlüter, Eduard Lohse, Archbishop Mor Julius Yeshu Cicek
The grave of Kurt Aland on the Central Cemetery Münster, Germany.