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Infallibility and Inerrancy: When Shared Words Conceal a Doctrinal Shift
Warfield did not invent biblical truthfulness, but his autographic formulation reconfigured the locus of perfection and the role of textual criticism.
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Presuppositional Analysis: Authorized: The Use and Misuse of the King James Bible
Authorized: The Use and Misuse of the King James Bible: A First-Principles Analysis The Question Beneath the Book’s Question Mark L. Ward Jr.’s Authorized: The Use and Misuse of the King James Bible rests on prior commitments concerning authority, knowledge, textual identity,…
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Book Review: Authorized: The Use and Misuse of the King James Bible
Authorized: The Use and Misuse of the King James Bible Bibliographical Notice Mark L. Ward Jr., Authorized: The Use and Misuse of the King James Bible (Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2018). The Book’s Task and the Opening Verdict Mark L. Ward Jr.’s…
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Scrivener’s Apparatus: A Citation Is Not a Manuscript
Scrivener’s collations and apparatuses are indispensable historical evidence, but an apparatus is a scholarly report about witnesses. It must be checked against the manuscripts, editions, and scope of the claim it is asked to support.
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No Major Doctrine? The Verdict After the Cases Have Been Heard
“No major doctrine is affected” is one of the most successful sentences in modern textual apologetics. It concedes the existence of differences while immediately limiting their importance. It permits the speaker to acknowledge omitted verses, altered predicates, bracketed narratives, and rival nouns…
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Is the Harder Reading Better?
Lectio difficilior assumes that scribes smooth what troubles them. But errors also create difficulty, and the critic must define hard, identify its cause, and guard against smuggling a doctrine of error into the text.
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The Myth of the Neutral Manuscript Fact
Manuscripts are real facts in God’s world, but age, brevity, difficulty, genealogy, and transmissional probability never rank themselves. Bahnsen’s rejection of brute facts applies inside textual criticism.
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The Apparatus Is Not an Eyewitness
A modern apparatus gives a necessary editorial summary, not a time machine. Alexandrinus must be judged through its material history, dated observers, transmissional possibilities, and ecclesiastical reception.
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Evidence Under Authority: A Confessional Use of Manuscripts
The alternative to extant-manuscript supremacy is not ignorance. It is a disciplined, ministerial use of historical evidence under the authority of the preserved text God has given His church.
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Presuppositional Analysis: Critical History of the Text of the New Testament
Critical History of the Text of the New Testament: A First-Principles Analysis The Question Beneath the Book’s Question Richard Simon’s Critical History of the Text of the New Testament rests on prior commitments concerning authority, knowledge, textual identity, history, providence, and human…
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Book Review: Critical History of the Text of the New Testament
Critical History of the Text of the New Testament Bibliographical Notice Richard Simon, Critical History of the Text of the New Testament, trans., intro., and ann. Andrew Hunwick (Leiden: Brill, 2013). The Book’s Task and the Opening Verdict Richard Simon’s Critical History…
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Erasmus, Vaticanus, and the Comma: What the Familiar Story Leaves Out
There is a version of the history of 1 John 5:7 that can be told before the coffee cools. Erasmus could not find the heavenly witnesses in Greek. He rashly promised to print them if anyone produced one Greek copy. A manuscript…
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