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Curated collection: Opposing and Critical Works
Authorized: The Use and Misuse of the King James Bible
Mark Ward, Authorized: The Use and Misuse of the King James Bible (Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2018).
Ward argues that English-speaking churches should confront the KJV’s obsolete vocabulary and semantic change rather than assume that inherited familiarity guarantees comprehension. The book offers concrete examples of “false friends,” discusses readability measures, and makes a positive case for vernacular translation. The…
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Critical History of the Text of the New Testament
Alternate title: Wherein Is Established the Truth of the Acts on Which the Christian Religion Is Based
Richard Simon, Critical History of the Text of the New Testament, trans., intro., and ann. Andrew Hunwick (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2013).
This scholarly edition makes Richard Simon’s seventeenth-century Critical History accessible in English with an introduction and annotations by Andrew Hunwick. Simon’s work is a major primary witness to the development of early modern historical criticism of the New Testament text, raising questions…
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The King James Only Controversy
Alternate title: Can You Trust the Modern Translations?
Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1995.
White’s polemical introduction to the King James-only controversy distinguishes translation questions from questions about the Hebrew and Greek text, rejects English re-inspiration, and argues for contemporary translations and case-by-case eclectic textual criticism. Its accessible taxonomy and local illustrations have made it influential…
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The Text of the New Testament
Alternate title: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism
Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1989; translated from the German second edition.
Kurt and Barbara Aland provide a comprehensive manual to critical editions, Greek manuscript classification, papyri, uncials, minuscules, lectionaries, ancient versions, patristic citation, and the practical evaluation of variants. The book combines reference tables and manuscript profiles with a concise statement of editorial…
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The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture
Alternate title: The Effect of Early Christological Controversies on the Text of the New Testament
New York: Oxford University Press, 1993; paperback 1996.
Ehrman argues that some scribal changes in the New Testament arose from second- and third-century Christological controversy. After establishing the diversity of early Christian groups and the fluidity of manuscript transmission, he organizes variants by their apparent anti-adoptionist, anti-separationist, anti-docetic, and anti-patripassian…
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Textual Scholarship and the Making of the New Testament
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
Parker explains how manuscripts, editorial theory, digital tools, and the history of transmission shape what modern readers call the New Testament text. He argues that a work's textual history cannot be reduced to recovery of a single authorial wording, describes the New…
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The Text of the New Testament
Alternate title: Its Transmission, Corruption, and Restoration
New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.
Metzger and Ehrman survey the physical production of ancient books, the principal Greek manuscripts, versions and Fathers, the history of printed editions, causes of accidental and intentional change, theories of transmission, and the practice of evaluating variants. The fourth edition updates Metzger's…
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