Is the Shorter Reading Better?
Lectio brevior is plausible because texts can grow through glosses, titles, parallels, and liturgy. Yet length becomes evidence only after a real mechanism of expansion has been shown.
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A Fallible Servant or a Final Court? The Place of Textual Criticism
Textual criticism need not claim infallibility to become functionally supreme. Its proper place is determined by whether it recognizes a preserved Word or conditions which words may presently…
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Reverence, Economy, and Superstition
Sacred contractions undeniably save space, but economy does not explain why Christians selected God, Lord, Jesus, and Christ. The evidence points first to reverence—and warns how reverence can…
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One Book at a Time: Dates, Translators, and Profiles
The Greek biblical books do not share one translator, date, or method. Before a Greek difference can be treated as evidence for another Hebrew text, the translation profile…
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From Simon to Restorationism: When Scripture Is Treated Like Every Other Ancient Book
This article examines the shift from ministerial textual comparison to a magisterial restorationism that treats Scripture like ordinary literature.
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