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Magisterial and Ministerial Textual Criticism
The deepest question in textual criticism is not how many manuscripts a scholar has collated, how early a codex is dated, or how sophisticated his account of scribal habits may be. It is not even which reading he selects at a particular…
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How Can Ye Believe? Academic Honor and the Fear of Man
Peer correction can strengthen Christian scholarship, but craving the academic guild’s recognition can become a rival loyalty that controls which biblical conclusions a scholar is willing to confess.
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The Authentic New Testament Is Preserved in the Greek Received Text Tradition
The doctrine of preservation must eventually identify a text.
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The Ninth-Commandment Safeguard: Truth Forbids Selective Evidence
Christian polemics must reject selective quotation, exaggeration, guilt by association, suppressed contrary evidence, and unproved claims about motive.
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BHS: The Last Complete Scholarly Edition of the Hebrew Bible
BHS remains the latest complete scholarly Hebrew Bible in the Biblia Hebraica line and the stated Old Testament base of the ESV. Its main text, apparatus, conjectures, and translation departures must nevertheless be kept distinct.
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How Particular Readings May Be Tested
If textual criticism must be ministerial rather than magisterial, how should a particular reading actually be tested?
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An Apologetic with a Borrowed Standard: How Guild Dependence Weakens the Defense of the Faith
A Christian cannot consistently challenge autonomous reason after granting it final jurisdiction over the identity of Scripture. The defense of the faith must begin under Christ’s Lordship, including its textual foundation.
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The Jurisdiction Safeguard: Editorial Judgment Is Not Church Censure
A publication may judge doctrine and warn readers, but it must not present its verdict as a binding ecclesiastical sentence.
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BHQ: An Incomplete Successor and the Limits of Calling It ‘the Hebrew Critical Text’
BHQ improves the presentation of Leningrad, the Masorah, Judean Desert evidence, ancient versions, and textual commentary. Its incomplete fascicle set cannot yet function as one complete Hebrew Bible.
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Reasoning with Unbelievers and Heretics under Scripture’s Final Court
The Christian must answer unbelief and heresy without surrendering Scripture’s authority to a supposedly neutral court.
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Scholarship Under the Word: The Ministerial Alternative
The alternative to academic captivity is exacting historical, linguistic, and textual scholarship ordered beneath Scripture’s authority and practiced for Christ’s Church.
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The Received Text Must Not Be Simplistically Equated with One Immaculate Printed Edition
Providential preservation does not require one inspired printer or one independently immaculate early edition; it requires the church’s possession of the text God inspired and preserved.
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