“Which TR?” and “Which Critical Text?”: Applying the Same Standard to Both
Applies the demand for a precisely identified text to both Received Text and critical-text positions, including Keister’s Sturzian approach.
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Principles, methods, evidence, and criticism concerning the biblical text.
NA28: The Current Published Nestle-Aland Baseline
NA28 remains the current published Nestle-Aland edition, but it is neither the whole critical-text ecosystem nor the newest Greek main text in every New Testament book. This article…
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The Reproducible Research Protocol for This Series
The Westminster reconstruction experiment must be repeatable. This protocol fixes the corpus, evidence ledger, source hierarchy, comparison steps, objection standard, verdict rules, and edition-revision process for every later…
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All New Testament Editions Are Eclectic: A Misleading Equivalence
Distinguishes correcting an inherited textual base from reconstructing a text from an aggregate and explains why calling every edition eclectic obscures that difference.
Open record →Burden of Proof, Certainty Labels, and the Verdict Scale
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…
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Negative Controls: Difficulties Shared by Received and Critical Texts
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,…
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