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Mark 7:16 — “If Any Man Have Ears to Hear, Let Him Hear”
The received text places Jesus’ familiar hearing summons between his public parable and its private explanation. The critical text omits the whole verse as an apparent echo of Mark 4.
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The Received Text: A Field Guide
Taylor DeSoto, The Received Text: A Field Guide (Kept Pure Press, 2024).
DeSoto offers a short, accessible guide to the Received Text debate. The book distinguishes text-base and translation questions, describes competing positions, introduces arguments for the TR, critiques labels, and defends continued use of the KJV without equating a translation with the original-language…
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Why I Preach from the Received Text
Jeffrey T. Riddle and Christian M. McShaffrey, eds., Why I Preach from the Received Text (The Greater Heritage, 2022).
This multi-author volume gathers pastors and scholars who argue for preaching from the Received or traditional ecclesiastical text. The essays range from doctrinal and apologetic arguments to pastoral testimony, historical reflection, and practical advice for churches. Its central theme is that the…
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Treatises Concerning the Scriptures
Alternate title: Of the Divine Original of the Scriptures; Integrity and Purity of the Hebrew and Greek Text
John Owen, Treatises Concerning the Scriptures, in The Works of John Owen, vol. 16, ed. William H. Goold (Edinburgh: Johnstone and Hunter, 1853).
The relevant Owen treatises give a mature seventeenth-century Reformed account of Scripture’s divine original and of the integrity and purity of the Hebrew and Greek text. Owen distinguishes autographs, copies, variants, translations, and printed forms without allowing those distinctions to empty the…
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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 Canon of the Holy Scriptures
Alternate title: From the Double Point of View of Science and of Faith
London: James Nisbet and Co., 21 Berners Street, 1863.
Gaussen argues for the canon of Scripture by combining historical evidence with what he calls the method of faith. Part One treats the New Testament canon through early catalogues, fathers, heretics, opponents, and the reception of disputed books. Part Two develops doctrinal…
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In Defense of the Authenticity of 1 John 5:7
Bloomington: WestBow Press, 2016; copyright 2015; revised August 3, 2016.
Pappas offers a sustained popular-level defense of the Comma Johanneum, combining the grammar of 1 John 5, Latin and Greek transmission, patristic and conciliar references, the history of Erasmus's editions, and theological arguments from providential preservation. The volume gathers many older pro-Comma…
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A Plea for the Received Greek Text and for the Authorised Version of the New Testament
Alternate title: In Answer to Some of the Dean of Canterbury's Criticisms on Both
London: Hatchards, 187 Piccadilly, W., 1869.
Malan replies to Henry Alford's critical Greek text and English revisions through detailed discussion of selected readings and renderings in Matthew 1–4 and Titus. He uses Greek grammar, classical parallels, patristic testimony, and ancient versions to defend the Received Text and the…
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The Ecclesiastical Text
Alternate title: Text Criticism, Biblical Authority and the Popular Mind
Philadelphia: Institute for Renaissance and Reformation Biblical Studies, 1997.
This collection of Letis's essays argues for a 'post-critical' recovery of the New Testament as an ecclesiastically received text. Letis contrasts the Protestant dogmaticians' appeal to the authentic Hebrew and Greek copies with Warfield's doctrine of inerrant but lost autographs, traces the…
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The Confessional Bibliology Project
A Return to the Doctrines of Providential Preservation and Scriptural Authority In the evolving landscape of modern textual criticism and theologically diverging perspectives on Scripture, a movement has emerged within the Reformed tradition that calls for a deliberate return to…
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Book Review Series: An Introduction
In the field of Confessional Bibliology, discerning readers often seek to deepen their understanding of scriptural preservation, Reformed theology, and the theological soundness of various texts that address these subjects. The purpose of this Book Review Series is to provide…
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Critique of James White’s The King James Only Controversy: An Introduction
The King James Version KJV of the Bible has played a monumental role in the history of Christianity, particularly within the English-speaking world. Revered by many for its literary elegance, historical impact, and doctrinal authority, it has become a theological and cultural…
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