96 Andrew Wilson grounds, in a manner as free as possible from any presuppositions about scribal behavior”6. Juan Hernández Jr. writes that singular readings are “the safest place to speak confidently about scribal tendencies”7. The present paper reports results from a study of 4200 singular read- ings in 33 chapters8 from the NT, thus covering more than 10% of the entire text. The study isolated singular readings using a combination of the following critical apparatuses: NA279, Swanson10, Tischendorf11, von Soden12, IGNTP Luke13, the Novum Testamentum Graecum Editio Critica Maior14 (ECM) in the Catholic Epistles and Hoskier’s Text of the Apocalypse15 for Revelation. These critical apparatuses were used on the basis of consistency and comprehensiveness in citing variant readings16. In the study, the following types of singular readings were excluded: 6 Royse, Scribal Habits, 2008, 11. 7 Hernández, Scribal Habits, 2006, 154. 8 Matthew chapters 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 10, 11, 12, 20, 21 and 26, Mark 1, 2, 3 and 6, Luke 10 and 11, John 4, 7 and 9, Acts 5, 10 and 15, Romans 12, 1 Corinthians 13, Galatians 1 and 2, James 1, 1 John 1, 2 and 5, and Revelation 1 and 5. 9 B. Aland – K. Aland – J. Karavidopoulos – C.M. Martini – B.M. Metzger (ed.), Nestle- Aland Novum Testamentum Graece, 27th Edition, 8th (revised) impression (Stuttgart 2001). 10 R.J. Swanson, New Testament Greek Manuscripts: Variant Readings Arranged in Horizontal Lines against Codex Vaticanus (Sheffield – Pasadena, CA, Vols. 1-5, 1995-98); (Wheaton, IL – Pasadena, CA, Vols. 6-7, 1999 and 2001). 11 C. von Tischendorf, Novum Testamentum Graece: ad antiquissimos testes denuo recensuit. 8th Edition (Leipzig 1869-72). 12 H. von Soden, Die Schriften des Neuen Testaments in ihrer ältesten erreichbaren Textgestalt hergestellt auf Grund ihrer Textgeschichte (Göttingen 1913). 13 American and British Committees of the International Greek New Testament Project (ed.), The New Testament in Greek: The Gospel according to Luke, Part One: Chapters 1-12, Part Two: Chapters 13-24 (Oxford 1984-87). 14 B. Aland – K. Aland – G. Mink – K. Wachtel (ed.), Novum Testamentum Graecum, Editio Critica Maior, 4: Catholic Letters, Installment 1: James, Installment 3: 1 John (Stuttgart 1997 and 2003). 15 H.C. Hoskier, Concerning the Text of the Apocalypse: Collations of All Existing Available Greek Documents with the Standard Text of Stephen’s Third Edition together with the Testimony of Versions, Commentaries and Fathers. A Complete Conspectus of all Authorities (London 1929). 16 The Kurzgefasste Liste Sigla Indices (comparing Tischendorf, von Soden and Gregory numbers) give the following figures: over 2800 MSS in von Soden; for Tischendorf 60 majus- cules, about 1420 Gospel minuscules, 520 minuscules for Acts and the Catholic epistles and 525 minuscules for Paul (K. Aland, Kurzegefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testaments (ANTF 1; Berlin 1994) 377-401); NA27 lists over 1400 MSS; Swanson uses about 150 MSS; IGNTP Luke has 238 MSS; ECM has 182 in James and Hoskier has 220 in Revelation. These apparatuses thus claim to be based on well in excess of 3000 manuscripts, more than half of all Greek NT manuscripts. The majority of the manuscripts not included in these critical apparatuses are Byzantine MSS with a highly uniform text, the inclusion of whose evidence would add little