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Beginning in 1834, von Tischendorf spent his scholarly career at the University Of Leipzig where he was mainly influenced by JGB Winer , and he began to take special interest in New Testament criticism. In 1838 he took the degree of Doctor Of Philosophy , then became master at a school near Leipzig . After a journey through southern Germany and Switzerland , and a visit to Strassburg , he returned to Leipzig, and set to work upon a critical study of the New Testament text. In 1840 he qualified as university lecturer in Theology with a dissertation on the Recension s of the New Testament text -- the main part of which reappeared the following year in the '' Prolegomena '' to his first edition of the Greek New Testament. His critical apparatus included variant readings from earlier scholars -- Elsevier , Knapp, Scholz, and as recent as Lachmann -- whereby his researches were emboldened to depart from the received text as used in churches. These early textual studies convinced him of the absolute necessity of new and more exact Collation s of manuscripts. From October 1840 until January 1843 he was in Paris , busy with the treasures of the Bibliothèque Nationale , eking out his scanty means by making collations for other scholars, and producing for the publisher, Firmin Didot , several editions of the Greek New Testament -- one of them exhibiting the form of the text corresponding most closely to the Vulgate . His second edition retracted the more precarious readings of the first, and included a statement of critical principles that is a landmark for evolving critical studies of Biblical texts. {Link without Title} From Paris, he had paid short visits to the Netherlands (1841) and England (1842). In 1843 he visited Italy , and after a stay of thirteen months, went on to Egypt , Sinai , and the Levant , returning by Vienna and Munich . In 1844, he paid his first visit to the convent of Saint Catherine's Monastery , on Mount Sinai , where he found, in a trash pile, fourty-four pages of what was the then oldest known copy of the Septuagint . He deposited them at the University Of Leipzig , under the title of the '' Codex Frederico-Augustanus '', a name given in honour of his patron, Frederick Augustus II Of Saxony , king of Saxony. The fragments were published in 1846 although he kept the place of discovery a secret. A great triumph of these laborious months was the decipherment of the Palimpsest '' Codex Ephraemi Syri Rescriptus '', of which the New Testament part was printed before he left Paris, and the Old Testament in 1845. His success in dealing with a manuscript that, having been rewritten with other works of Ephrem The Syrian , had been mostly illegible to earlier collators, made him more well known, and gained support for more extended critical expeditions. He now became ''professor extraordinarius'' at Leipzig, and married (1845). He also began to publish an account of his travels in the East (2 vols., 1845-1846). |
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