Local Reading and Complete Corpus
A local loss must not be concealed by the survival of doctrine elsewhere, but neither may one local loss be made to speak for an entire edition. The…
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Codex Vaticanus: Assigned Date, Documented History
Codex Vaticanus is conventionally assigned to the fourth century and securely documented in the Vatican collection in the fifteenth. Those are different claims, supported by different evidence.
Open record →Five Doctrinal-Effect Classes
D0 through D4 distinguish neutrality, lost testimony, accommodation, formal entailment, and orthodox counterevidence. The classes measure a reading’s demonstrated effect without turning a local finding into a corpus…
Open record →Palaeography: A Real Tool with Real Limits
Handwriting comparison can place an undated manuscript within a useful historical range. It cannot make every letter form a clock or turn stylistic resemblance into a dated colophon.
Open record →The Martin Rule of Exact Doctrinal Entailment
A reading must be judged by what its words necessarily assert, what they remove, and what must be imported from elsewhere. The Martin Rule prevents both doctrinal minimization…
Open record →“Attested By” Is Not “Composed In”
The earliest surviving witness tells us that wording existed by a certain point. It does not, by itself, tell us when that wording originated—or authorize an arbitrary century-long…
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