Principles, methods, evidence, and criticism concerning the biblical text.
Scribes sometimes harmonized parallel passages, but authors, memory, worship, and shared events also produce agreement, while scribal corruption can create difference. Disharmony is not self-authenticating.
Open record →Elijah Hixson’s work is useful for testing whether Scripture is being treated as uniquely preserved or as undergoing the same fate as any other ancient text.
Open record →Several ancient systems replaced the public apostolic gospel with elite knowledge, divided humanity into fixed spiritual kinds, and treated marriage or food as stains from an inferior creation.
Open record →Scrivener’s collations and apparatuses are indispensable historical evidence, but an apparatus is a scholarly report about witnesses. It must be checked against the manuscripts, editions, and scope of…
Open record →“No major doctrine is affected” is one of the most successful sentences in modern textual apologetics. It concedes the existence of differences while immediately limiting their importance. It…
Open record →Lectio difficilior assumes that scribes smooth what troubles them. But errors also create difficulty, and the critic must define hard, identify its cause, and guard against smuggling a…
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