Books · Articles · Research Tools
Library
Search the complete research catalog and the indexed content of Confessional Bibliology.
Search All Library Content
Unified Research Discovery
620 results
The Back-Translation Charge: Evidence, Not Enumeration
A claim that Erasmus invented Greek from Latin must identify the Greek form, Latin source, edition, and later transmission. Counting “five” or “six” verses without that work is rhetoric, not a demonstrated textual history.
Why this matched: Matched the indexed overview or full text for “New Testament Textual Criticism”.
God or He Who? 1 Timothy 3:16 Does Change the Proposition
In 1 Timothy 3:16, one small group of strokes carries a large claim. The received Greek text reads Theos ephanerōthē en sarki: “God was manifest in the flesh.” The modern critical text reads hos ephanerōthē en sarki: “who was manifested in the…
Why this matched: Matched the indexed overview or full text for “New Testament Textual Criticism”.
The CBGM and the Claim of the ‘Best Manuscripts’
The Coherence-Based Genealogical Method greatly strengthens the study of textual relationships, yet its local orientations remain editorial judgments and its output does not supply a theology of authority.
Why this matched: Matched the indexed overview or full text for “New Testament Textual Criticism”.
Could “Who” Begin with Faded Ink?
A fading theta can become an omicron to the eye. That supplies a credible route from θεός to ὅς—but the hypothesis must not be exaggerated into a claim about every surviving witness.
Why this matched: Matched the indexed overview or full text for “New Testament Textual Criticism”.
Why “Gnosticism” Must Remain Plural
The movements commonly grouped under Gnosticism did not confess one creed. A defensible textual indictment must name the teacher, the system, and the exact proposition before judging a reading.
Why this matched: Matched the indexed overview or full text for “New Testament Textual Criticism”.
The Rush to Print: Speed Is Not a Textual Theory
Erasmus’s 1516 edition was produced quickly. That fact does not prove the familiar commercial-race story, nor can it establish a particular reading without a reading-specific argument.
Why this matched: Matched the indexed overview or full text for “New Testament Textual Criticism”.
Presuppositional Analysis: Treatises Concerning the Scriptures
Treatises Concerning the Scriptures: A First-Principles Analysis The Question Beneath the Book’s Question John Owen’s Treatises Concerning the Scriptures rests on prior commitments concerning authority, knowledge, textual identity, history, providence, and human judgment. The relevant Goold-volume treatises are “Of the Divine Original…
Why this matched: Matched the indexed overview or full text for “New Testament Textual Criticism”.
The Woman They Put in Brackets: John 7:53–8:11 and the Canonical Cost
The story is known even by people who cannot place it in John. A woman is brought into the temple. Her accusers say she was taken in adultery. They ask whether the law of Moses requires her to be stoned, and they…
Why this matched: Matched the indexed overview or full text for “New Testament Textual Criticism”.
‘God Has Not Promised Perfect Transmission’: From Kept Pure to Essential Purity
Bahnsen’s denial of promised perfect transmission answers claims confessional preservation does not make, then substitutes practical adequacy for Westminster’s confession of a text kept pure and presently authentic.
Why this matched: Matched the indexed overview or full text for “New Testament Textual Criticism”.
Woide and Scrivener After the Damage
Woide reportedly saw the trace in 1765 but not in 1785. Scrivener saw a faint remnant in 1861. Their testimony makes deterioration part of the textual evidence.
Why this matched: Matched the indexed overview or full text for “New Testament Textual Criticism”.
The Foundation Remains
The failure of reconstructive authority cannot destroy the authentic Word. Christ remains the chief cornerstone, the prophetic-apostolic foundation remains available, and the Church may build again through confession, reception, rigorous ministerial scholarship, and faithful translation.
Why this matched: Matched the indexed overview or full text for “New Testament Textual Criticism”.
What Textual Evidence Would Count as Arian?
A shorter or altered reading may weaken an anti-Arian proof without teaching Arianism. This article fixes the five doctrinal-effect classes and the proof required for a reading, an edition, or a corpus-level indictment.
Why this matched: Matched the indexed overview or full text for “New Testament Textual Criticism”.