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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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Text, Witness, Edition, and Translation
The argument over TBS repeatedly collapses four different things: the inspired text, manuscript witnesses, printed editions, and translations. Keeping them distinct exposes why manuscript counting, historical collation, and textual authority cannot be treated as interchangeable.
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Mark 16: Printed, Bracketed, or Rejected?
Modern critical editions usually print Mark 16:9–20, but their double brackets identify it as an early addition rather than the earliest text. TBS should describe that fact accurately; Steele should not use physical presence on the page to conceal the editors’ judgment…
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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 Text of the New Testament
Alternate title: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism
Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1989; translated from the German second edition.
Kurt and Barbara Aland provide a comprehensive manual to critical editions, Greek manuscript classification, papyri, uncials, minuscules, lectionaries, ancient versions, patristic citation, and the practical evaluation of variants. The book combines reference tables and manuscript profiles with a concise statement of editorial…
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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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Textual Scholarship and the Making of the New Testament
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
Parker explains how manuscripts, editorial theory, digital tools, and the history of transmission shape what modern readers call the New Testament text. He argues that a work's textual history cannot be reduced to recovery of a single authorial wording, describes the New…
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Key Textual Variants and Doctrinal Implications Series: An Introduction
In the study of biblical manuscripts, one quickly encounters the term “textual variants”—differences among ancient copies of Scripture that arise from variations in wording, spelling, or phrasing. These variants may seem minor or purely academic, but in some cases, they hold…
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Reformed Ruckmanism Part 2
Historical Inaccuracy of the Septuagint The Septuagint’s historical origins are often traced to a legend known as the Letter of Aristeas, which claims that 72 Jewish scholars translated the Hebrew Scriptures into Greek for the Egyptian king Ptolemy II Philadelphus in the…
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Reformed Ruckmanism Part 2
Historical Inaccuracy of the Septuagint The Septuagint’s historical origins are often traced to a legend known as the Letter of Aristeas, which claims that 72 Jewish scholars translated the Hebrew Scriptures into Greek for the Egyptian king Ptolemy II Philadelphus in the…
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Reformed Ruckmanism Part 3
Doctrinal Deviations and Translational Errors in the Septuagint An in-depth examination of the Septuagint reveals significant deviations from the Hebrew Masoretic Text, encompassing outright errors and, in some cases, doctrinal alterations reflecting the translators' interpretive biases rather than a faithful rendering of…
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Reformed Ruckmanism Part 3
Doctrinal Deviations and Translational Errors in the Septuagint An in-depth examination of the Septuagint reveals significant deviations from the Hebrew Masoretic Text, encompassing outright errors and, in some cases, doctrinal alterations reflecting the translators' interpretive biases rather than a faithful rendering of…
Why this matched: Matched subjects, doctrines, categories, or keywords for “Manuscripts”.