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Mark 5:1 — Gadarenes, Gerasenes, or Gergesenes? Locating the Demoniac’s Country
Three regional names compete at the opening of the demoniac account. The received “Gadarenes” can identify a district associated with Gadara rather than claim that the city stood on the waterline.
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One Bible, Many Reconstructions: Where Does the Text Exist?
There is a sentence in Wesley Huff’s account of the New Testament that invites confidence and postpones definition. The original writings, he says, have been lost; nevertheless, the Bible itself was not lost. New discoveries have instead broadened our knowledge and allowed…
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Circularity, Ultimate Authority, and the Myth of Neutral Textual Criticism
James White calls Confessional Bibliology viciously circular. The proper answer distinguishes unavoidable ultimate-authority reasoning from arbitrary question-begging and restores evidence to its ministerial place.
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Book Review: The King James Only Controversy: Can You Trust the Modern Translations?
The King James Only Controversy: Can You Trust the Modern Translations? Bibliographical Notice James R. White, The King James Only Controversy: Can You Trust the Modern Translations? (Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1995). The Book’s Task and the Opening Verdict James R. White’s The…
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Presuppositional Analysis: The King James Only Controversy: Can You Trust the Modern Translations?
The King James Only Controversy: Can You Trust the Modern Translations?: A First-Principles Analysis The Question Beneath the Book’s Question James R. White’s The King James Only Controversy: Can You Trust the Modern Translations? rests on prior commitments concerning authority, knowledge, textual…
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“There Was When He Was Not”
Arius placed the Son before the ages but still gave him a beginning. Scripture’s answer is not merely that Christ is very old, but that the eternal Word is before every created thing.
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Mark 5:36 — “As Soon as Jesus Heard” or “Ignoring What Was Spoken”?
The received verb says Jesus heard the report of the girl’s death. The critical verb may mean overheard it or disregarded it. The narrative consequence is the same command against fear.
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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 Positive Case for the Text: Calamy''s Third Sermon on 1 John 5:7
Calamy assembles his positive case for 1 John 5:7, emphasizing early Latin and African testimony and replying to competing accounts of the reading's origin.
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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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A New Approach to Textual Criticism
Alternate title: An Introduction to the Coherence-Based Genealogical Method
Atlanta: SBL Press; Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 2017.
Wasserman and Gurry give the first book-length English introduction to the Coherence-Based Genealogical Method used in the Catholic Epistles and Acts of the Editio Critica Maior. They explain local stemmata, potential ancestors and descendants, pre-genealogical and genealogical coherence, textual flow diagrams, contamination,…
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