Editio Critica Maior (ECM), Publications

The Editio Critica Maior (ECM) is the most extensive and methodologically advanced critical edition of the Greek New Testament, edited by the Institute for New Testament Textual Research (INTF) in collaboration with international scholars. Its goal is to reconstruct the earliest attainable form of the New Testament by considering the entire manuscript tradition, early versions, and patristic citations. So far, volumes for the Catholic Letters (1997), Acts (2015), Mark (2021), and Revelation (2024) have been published.

In general, each volume includes three parts: (1) the reconstructed main text with a detailed apparatus, (2) supplementary material referring to the text-critical apparatus, and (3) a commentary on selected variants as well as studies of early translations and patristic tradition. For the Catholic Letters the commentary part is not available. For Revelation the commentary consists of two separate parts, one offering a commentary on selected variants as well as investigations into early translations and patristic tradition (written mostly in German) and the other offering studies of punctuation and textual structure (written in German and English).