The Rush to Print: Speed Is Not a Textual Theory
Erasmus’s 1516 edition was produced quickly. That fact does not prove the familiar commercial-race story, nor can it establish a particular reading without a reading-specific argument.
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The Woman They Put in Brackets: John 7:53–8:11 and the Canonical Cost
The story is known even by people who cannot place it in John. A woman is brought into the temple. Her accusers say she was taken in adultery.…
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The Bible They Cannot Know, Part 4: The Borrowed Bible and the God Who Kept His Word
The critical-text position borrows the authority of a Bible whose public identity it cannot ground. Christ's promise requires an available and identifiable written Word; the confessional doctrine of…
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Manuscripts Give Readings, Not Rankings
A manuscript directly supplies a reading, but its age, independence, character, and weight are conclusions reached through further historical judgments.
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‘God Has Not Promised Perfect Transmission’: From Kept Pure to Essential Purity
Bahnsen’s denial of promised perfect transmission answers claims confessional preservation does not make, then substitutes practical adequacy for Westminster’s confession of a text kept pure and presently authentic.
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