Old Is Not Original: Antiquity, Attrition, and the Appeal to Age
An older manuscript may be historically valuable, but it is not thereby a more authentic manuscript. Date is chronology, not a divine or genealogical verdict.
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The Manuscript That Survived: Why Extant-Witness Supremacy Is a Non Sequitur
A surviving manuscript can be evidence of a reading. Its survival cannot, by itself, prove that the reading is superior to the Received Text. The missing premise is…
Open record →When a Text Becomes Public: Printing, Preservation, and the End of Manuscript Necessity
Printing did not inspire an editor or create Scripture. It did make a received text publicly stable and widely accessible, so that the church's possession of the Word…
Open record →The Text Is Not the Artifact
God promised to preserve His Word, not to keep every individual copy that ever bore it from perishing. Confusing the manuscript with the text creates the first and…
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The Practical Relevance of Reformed Textual Criticism Today
Introduction: From Theory to Practice Textual criticism is often regarded as an academic discipline, confined to seminaries, libraries, or scholarly journals. Yet, for the Reformed Christian, textual criticism…
Open record →Modern Challenges to Reformed Textual Criticism
Introduction: The Assault on Providential Preservation The advent of Modern Textual Criticism in the 18th and 19th centuries introduced profound challenges to the Reformed understanding of textual preservation.…
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