Download or read book Richard Simon Critical History of the Text of the New Testament written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-02-15 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Critical History of the Text of the New Testament (1689), 17th century Oratorian Richard Simon (1638-1712), ‘father’ of modern biblical criticism, surveys the genuineness, authority, and reliability of all then known manuscript and printed sources of the New Testament.