Principles, methods, evidence, and criticism concerning the biblical text.
Textual facts, historical inferences, translations, doctrinal consequences, and contradiction claims carry different burdens of proof. This article fixes the certainty labels and verdict rules that govern the reconstruction…
Open record →A fair reconstruction test must distinguish problems produced by a critical reading from difficulties already present in both the critical and received texts. Negative controls prevent false attribution,…
Open record →No interpreter approaches Scripture without prior theology, but a reconstruction succeeds only when its material premises can be traced to the corpus under examination. This article distinguishes legitimate…
Open record →Analyzes the methodological consequence of admitting that textual criticism has no explicit biblical guidelines for ordering its probabilistic canons.
Open record →A Greek or Hebrew reading, an English translation, and an interpretation of that wording are related but distinct objects. This article establishes the controls needed to determine whether…
Open record →Contradiction, tension, ambiguity, and proof-text loss are not interchangeable accusations. This article defines each category, fixes the threshold for a strict contradiction, and shows how logical coherence and…
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