Editions and Textual History

These records examine Hebrew and Greek editions, printed-text history, translation bases, and the distinction between a text, a witness, and an editorial reconstruction.

• Which Textus Receptus? A Response to Mark Ward's Critique of Confessional Bibliology — 1,620 words
• A Refutation of Jan Krans’ Critique of the Textus Receptus — 1,611 words
• NT Manuscripts Made to Order (Erasmus and I Jn5.7) — 1,126 words
• The Doctrinal Various Readings of the New Testament Greek — 16,477 words
• The Received Text: A Field Guide - Review — 1,615 words
• Why I Preach from the Received Text - Review — 3,311 words
• Presuppositional Analysis - Why I Preach from the Received Text — 2,475 words
• Presuppositional Analysis - The Received Text: A Field Guide — 1,524 words
• Critical Text Onlyism: A New Doctrine — 1,267 words
• THE GREEK TEXT OF WESTCOTT AND HORT. — 6,383 words
• The Impossibility of Apologetics with the Critical Text: An Introduction — 1,563 words
• Corrupt Trees, Corrupt Fruit: The Scriptural Case Against the Critical Text Part 1 — 2,430 words
• Corrupt Trees, Corrupt Fruit: The Scriptural Case Against the Critical Text Part 2 — 2,639 words
• Corrupt Trees, Corrupt Fruit: The Scriptural Case Against the Critical Text Part 3 — 3,092 words
• Erasmian Myths: Revelation Back Translated from the Vulgate? — 1,407 words
• The Authenticity of the Hebrew Text — 3,556 words
• The Authenticity of the Vulgate — 1,488 words
• The Authenticity of the Vulgate — 1,488 words
• Of the Integrity and Purity of the Hebrew & Greek Texts of Scripture — 37,356 words
• John Gill On the Hebrew Vowel Points pt 1 — 5,025 words
• John Gill On the Hebrew Vowel Points pt 2 — 6,777 words
• John Gill On the Hebrew Vowel Points pt 3 — 13,047 words
• John Gill On the Hebrew Vowel Points pt 4 — 6,889 words
• Do we correct the Textus Receptus with new discoveries? — 1,177 words
• Learning Greek & Latin — 1,454 words
• Erasmus and Beza vs Krans — 1,409 words
• Erasmus' Greek New Testament & Back Translation — 2,014 words
• The Early Reformers, Textual Variants, and the Hebrew Vowel Points — 3,028 words Planned
• The Authentic Old Testament Is Preserved in the Hebrew Masoretic Textual Tradition — 5,308 words
• The Authentic New Testament Is Preserved in the Greek Received Text Tradition — 4,370 words
• The Received Text Must Not Be Simplistically Equated with One Immaculate Printed Edition — 3,246 words
• A Distinction Must Be Maintained among the Text, Its Witnesses, and Its Editions — 4,017 words
• Difficult Variants Must Be Resolved Within the Received Text — 5,121 words
• From the Traditional Text to the Textus Receptus — 1,143 words Scheduled February 7, 2027
• From the Textus Receptus to the King James Version — 1,063 words Scheduled February 14, 2027
• Gill, Buxtorf, and the Hebrew Vowel Points: Expertise, Usage, and Historical Testimony — 1,074 words Scheduled October 4, 2026
• Can the Received Text and Critical Text Both Be “Pure”? — 3,749 words
• All New Testament Editions Are Eclectic: A Misleading Equivalence — 3,385 words
• From “Erasmus’s Handful” to the Church’s Text: What the Small-Base Argument Leaves Out — 3,965 words
• “Which TR?” and “Which Critical Text?”: Applying the Same Standard to Both — 3,237 words
• Negative Controls: Difficulties Shared by Received and Critical Texts — 4,433 words
• UBS6: The Current Greek Text and the Published Proxy for NA29 — 3,436 words
• NA29 and Edition Drift: What Changes When the Standard Changes? — 2,982 words
• BHS: The Last Complete Scholarly Edition of the Hebrew Bible — 2,803 words
• BHQ: An Incomplete Successor and the Limits of Calling It ‘the Hebrew Critical Text’ — 2,753 words
• Diplomatic and Eclectic Editions: Why the Old and New Testament Projects Are Not Identical — 2,844 words
• The ESV 2025: Its Stated Hebrew and Greek Bases — 2,775 words
• Why the ESV Is Not Simply the Critical Text in English — 3,032 words
• The Received Greek and Hebrew Controls: Editions, History, and Fair Comparison — 3,138 words
• Asaph and Amos in Matthew 1:7–10: When the ESV Follows Its Greek Base — 3,715 words Planned
• The Copyist’s Eye: How the Comma Could Have Disappeared from the Greek Text — 3,037 words Planned
• The Authentic Hebrew and Greek Scriptures and the Place of Translation — 2,816 words Planned
• Which Texts Are Authentical? The Hebrew and Greek Texts Confessional Bibliology Affirms—and Why — 4,595 words Scheduled July 30, 2026
• Authentical: The Present Authority of the Preserved Hebrew and Greek Scriptures — 3,035 words Planned
• The Hebrew and Greek Originals as Rule, Standard, and Touchstone — 3,089 words Planned
• Correcting the Scrivener: Mistake, Reformation, and the Testator’s Actual Intention — 2,421 words
• Evidence Is Not the Instrument: Manuscripts, Editions, and the Rule of Faith — 2,378 words