Coherence-Based Genealogical Method (CBGM) The Coherence-Based Genealogical Method , developed by Gerd Mink at the Institut für Neutestamentliche Textforschung (INTF) in Münster, aims at a scientifically founded reconstruction of the initial text (*Ausgangstext*) of the New Testament tradition, i.e. a hypothesis about the text from which the ...

Dec 22, 2017 · The CBGM is possible because it is built on a computerized database, i.e. a collection of all the variant readings in carefully selected Greek NT manuscripts (well over 100 thus far) converted to machine-readable code for the purpose.

Coherence-Based Genealogical Method (CBGM) is a methodology that uses a set of computer tools based in a new way of relating manuscript texts to compare and analyse readings, and as such any critical assessment of it needs to be somewhat technical.

Chains of coherencies connect attestations of different variants where a change of text took place between witnesses. Thus, the coherencies of witnesses within a global stemma are linked in the way presented to the coherencies of witnesses at given places of variation.

Oct 13, 2023 · The Coherence-Based Genealogical Method (CBGM) is a relatively new but increasingly influential approach to New Testament textual criticism.

The Coherence-Based Genealogical Method (CBGM) was developed at the Institut für Neu-testamentliche Textforschung (INTF) by Gerd Mink so that textual critics could produce a working hypothesis for the genealogical structure of the New Testament textual tradition and evaluate text-critical decisions in a highly contaminated tradition.

“What is new is not that the CBGM relates texts; what is new is how it relates them. The new principle the CBGM uses is that the texts of manuscripts can be related to each other using the relationships of their variants.”

Jan 30, 2025 · The Coherence Based Genealogical Method (CBGM) was developed by Gerd Mink. It is a new approach to the Greek text of the New Testament in an attempt to discover the initial text (autograph) of the New Testament (“it is a hypothesis about the text from which the manuscript transmission started”).

This document presents a brief introduction to the Coherence-Based Genealogical Method (CBGM), intended to bring newcomers and those in need of a refresher up to speed on the basics of the method. It is divided into sections organized around the core elements of the method.