Matthew 13:55 — Joses or Joseph? The Name of Jesus’ Brother
Nazareth names four of Jesus’ brothers. The second is Joses in the Textus Receptus and Joseph in the usual critical text.
Open record →Author: Chris Thomas
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How Can Ye Believe? Academic Honor and the Fear of Man
Peer correction can strengthen Christian scholarship, but craving the academic guild’s recognition can become a rival loyalty that controls which biblical conclusions a scholar is willing to confess.
Open record →The Book of the Covenant: Why God’s Binding Speech Takes Written Form
From Sinai to Josiah’s reform, Scripture presents the covenant word not as a recoverable religious gist but as a written, deposited, read, and guarded document.
Open record →Magisterial and Ministerial Textual Criticism
The deepest question in textual criticism is not how many manuscripts a scholar has collated, how early a codex is dated, or how sophisticated his account of scribal…
Open record →The ECM, the CBGM, and the Reconstruction of an Initial Text
The ECM supplies the evidence and editorial decisions behind the newest hand editions, while the CBGM analyzes coherence within a contaminated tradition. Neither should be caricatured as an…
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