Just before SBL (while my desk was tidy) my copy of this book arrived: The Text of the New Testament in Contemporary Research: Essays on the Status Quaestionis. Second Edition (eds M.W. Holmes & B.D. Ehrman; NTTSD 42; Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2012). The first edition was itself a landmark in the discipline. The second edition is twice as big and has seven new chapters; the original chapter topics/headings are (with one exception) retained with either a completely new author (writing an entirely new chapter), a revision by the old author, or a revision by a supplementary author. I have enjoyed dipping into it so far and congratulate the editors and the other contributors on this achievement. If you want to know the state of the question on any of the following topics then this is the place to look. This book has 28 chapters as follows:
1. The Papyrus Manuscripts of the New Testament (Eldon Jay Epp; revised)
2. The Majuscule Manuscripts of the New Testament (David C. Parker; revised)
3. The Greek Minuscules of the New Testament (Barbara Aland and Klaus Wachtel; revised)
4. The Greek Lectionaries of the New Testament (Carroll Osburn: revised)
5. The Diatessaron of Tatian (Ulrich B. Schmid; new author)
6. The Syriac Versions of the New Testament (Peter J. Williams; new author)
7. The Latin Version of the New Testament (Philip Burton; new author)
8. The Coptic Versions of the New Testament (Christian Askeland; new author)
9. The Ethiopic Version of the New Testament (Rochus Zuurmond revised by Curt Niccum)
10. The Armenian Version of the New Testament (S. Peter Cowe; new author)
11. The Georgian Version of the New Testament (Jeff W. Childers; new author)
12. The Gothic Version of the New Testament (Carla Falluomini: new chapter)
13. The Use of the Greek Fathers for New Testament Textual Criticism (Gordon D. Fee revised by Roderic L. Mullen)
14. The Use of the Latin Fathers for New Testament Textual Criticism (H.A.G. Houghton; new author)
15. The Use of the Syriac Fathers for New Testament Textual Criticism (Sebastian Brock; revised)
16. Additional Greek Witnesses to the New Testament (Ostraca, Amulets, Inscriptions and other sources) (Peter M. Head; new chapter)
17. Scribal Tendencies in the Transmission of the Text of the New Testament (James R. Royse; revised)
18. The Social History of Early Christian Scribes (Kim Haines-Eitzen; new chapter)
19. Analyzing and Categorizing New Testament Greek Manuscripts (Thomas C. Geer, Jr. revised by Jean-François Racine)
20. Textual Clusters: Their Past and Future in New Testament Textual Criticism (Eldon Jay Epp; new chapter)
21. Criteria For Evaluating Readings in New Testament Textual Criticism (Tommy Wasserman; new chapter)
22. Conjectural Emendation and the Text of the New Testament (Jan Krans; new chapter)
23. From “Original Text” to “Initial Text”: the Traditional Goal of New Testament Textual Criticism in Contemporary Discussion (Michael W. Holmes; new chapter)
24. Modern Critical Editions and Apparatuses of the Greek New Testament (Juan Hernández Jr.; new author)
25. The Majority Text Theory: History, Methods, and Critique (Daniel B. Wallace; revised)
26. Thoroughgoing Eclecticism in New Testament Textual Criticism (J. Keith Elliott; revised)
27. Reasoned Eclecticism in New Testament Textual Criticism (Michael W. Holmes; revised)
28. The Text as Window: New Testament Manuscripts and the Social History of Early Christianity (Bart D. Ehrman; revised)
NB. in Bart Ehrman's blog on the subject he writes:
As it is, the book is scarcely affordable: it weighs in at $314! But the publisher, E. J. Brill will put out a paper back eventually, hopefully in about a year, at a more manageable $45 or so, we hope.NB. We should also note that ETC bloggers are exceptionally well represented in this fine volume.
NB. The one essay title not replicated in the second edition is the one by Bob Kraft on the Use of Computers in NT TC. I was surprised not to find any replacement of this important essay and topic and found the attempt to justify its absence in the preface rather unconvincing. But I gather in conference gossip that unsuccessful attempts were made to have an essay on this topic included.