Principles, methods, evidence, and criticism concerning the biblical text.
A manuscript’s date, wording, location, and genealogical relations are real facts. Their textual significance is not self-interpreting. Bahnsen’s doctrine of facts requires a theological account of the evidence.
Open record →A whole-system reconstruction cannot be run from anecdotes. It requires a versioned ledger linking atomic Westminster propositions to every proof passage, textual event, translation choice, premise, control result,…
Open record →A fair reconstruction test requires identified received-text controls, not an undefined ‘TR’ or the KJV treated as inspired Greek and Hebrew. This article fixes the editions, historical checks,…
Open record →The ESV is a useful English witness to a critical-edition-based process, but translation, interpretation, inherited wording, textual exceptions, and footnotes prevent it from being treated as the critical…
Open record →Crossway identifies BHS 1997, UBS5 corrected, and NA28 as the ESV 2025’s formal bases, while acknowledging consultation of other witnesses and selective departures. Those qualifications define how the…
Open record →BHS and BHQ reproduce an identified Hebrew manuscript above the apparatus; Nestle–Aland and UBS print an eclectic editorial reconstruction. The projects must not be described as though they…
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