Why Scribes Omit as Well as Add
Eye-skip, abbreviation, memory, deliberate pruning, and measured scribal habits show why the shorter reading may be secondary. The proper comparison is causal, not merely numerical.
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When Textual Science Becomes Magisterial
Textual science becomes magisterial not when scholars study manuscripts, but when their revisable judgments regulate the identity and extent of the authority by which those judgments must be…
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“God Was Manifest” in the Canonical Context
Θεός produces an explicit confession of the incarnation, fits the grammar, and agrees with Scripture’s repeated identification of Christ as God. Canonical harmony is not a substitute for…
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From Jewish Translations to Christian Pandects
The road from early Jewish Greek translations to the great Christian codices passed through centuries of revision, copying, and collection. A later pandect may preserve ancient readings, but…
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Lane Keister: Preservation Affirmed, but What Has Been Preserved?
Lane Keister explicitly affirms preservation, but the question is whether the doctrine he affirms is the same doctrine confessed in Westminster 1.8.
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