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Being a critical edition of the Greek New Testament, the Nestle-Aland provides an eclectic text reconstructed from the tradition by means of a combination of external and internal criteria. The internal criteria are based on the intrinsic coherence of the text, its grammatical structure and its stylistic, linguistic and theological features. These cannot be applied without giving full weight to exegetical insights and studies. The external criteria are related to the quality and reliability of the witnesses supporting a variant. They are derived from the text-historical place and the transcriptional character of single witnesses and groups of witnesses.

The wealth of material available for the Catholic Letters and its methodological analysis by means of the coherence method brought about considerable progress in refining the external criteria. Therefore the text of this part of the New Testament was newly established. For all other NT books for which the Editio Critica Maior is not yet available, there is no new basis of knowledge. Hence, except for the Catholic Letters, the text of the 27th edition has been retained.