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Holger Strutwolf
Holger Strutwolf is a German Protestant theologian specializing in patristics and New Testament textual criticism.
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Repeat the Method, Lose the Text
If competent editors can repeat the accepted critical process and produce a different Greek text, the process has not uniquely identified the church's final standard. Its translations inherit the same defect.
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Providence Redefined: A Manuscript Treasury Is Not a Text
The preservation of manuscript evidence is a real providential good, but a treasury of divergent witnesses still requires an authorized rule to identify the church’s text.
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Wettstein Changed His Mind
The strongest historical objection came from a scholar who first acknowledged the fine stroke and later denied it. Wettstein’s reversal must be heard fairly—but it does not erase the earlier observations.
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The Line That Vanished
The Line That Vanished Nomina Sacra and 1 Timothy 3:16 Research dossier and ten-part article series Prepared for Confessional Bibliology 23 July 2026 Editorial thesis The famous dispute at 1 Timothy 3:16 is not chiefly about Codex Vaticanus or Codex Sinaiticus. Vaticanus…
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What Is a Textual Canon? From Maxim to Verdict
A textual canon is a bridge from an observed feature to a judgment of priority. This article classifies the main canons and shows why the hidden premises in that bridge matter more than the slogan.
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The Same Words, Another Doctrine: Lane Keister, Equivocation, and the Ninth Commandment
Shows that Lane Keister’s claim of precise agreement on preservation depends upon giving the historic term a different aggregate and reconstructive meaning, then applies the Ninth Commandment to the resulting public equivocation without alleging knowledge of his heart.
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The Critical-Text Case, Stated at Its Strongest
Before testing modern textual criticism for arbitrariness, its historical claims, evidential appeals, editorial methods, and principal modern forms must be stated as their strongest advocates state them.
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Arbitrariness: The Unproved Decisions Behind the Text
Modern textual criticism possesses evidence, learning, and elaborate tools. The prior question is whether its selection and weighting of that evidence escape mere opinion, relativism, unargued bias, and conjecture.
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When the Canons Collide: The Question That Exposes the Method
What happens when the harder reading is also the longer reading? That plain collision opens the deeper question of who has authority to rank the canons and constitute the text of Scripture for the Church.
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Two Strokes Between “God” and “Who”
In an uncial manuscript, θεός and ὅς can differ by a transverse line and a sacred overbar. The tiny material difference explains both the controversy and the danger of treating a damaged page as self-interpreting.
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Modern Textual Criticism in the Light of Scripture - Part 7
The Roots of Modern Textual Criticism: Tracing the Influence of Simon’s Historical Methods ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Introduction Textual criticism, the discipline that studies the history and transmission of ancient manuscripts to…
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