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Presuppositional Analysis: Critical History of the Text of the New Testament
Critical History of the Text of the New Testament: A First-Principles Analysis The Question Beneath the Book’s Question Richard Simon’s Critical History of the Text of the New Testament rests on prior commitments concerning authority, knowledge, textual identity, history, providence, and human judgment. This annotated…
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Book Review: Critical History of the Text of the New Testament
Critical History of the Text of the New Testament Bibliographical Notice Richard Simon, Critical History of the Text of the New Testament, trans., intro.,…
Scrivener and Revelation 22: The Citation Is Not the Case
Scrivener’s observations about Erasmus and Revelation are important but often made to carry conclusions they do not state. A citation is the beginning of…
Erasmus, Vaticanus, and the Comma: What the Familiar Story Leaves Out
There is a version of the history of 1 John 5:7 that can be told before the coffee cools. Erasmus could not find the…
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