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Magisterial and Ministerial Textual Criticism
The deepest question in textual criticism is not how many manuscripts a scholar has collated, how early a codex is dated, or how sophisticated his account of scribal habits may be. It is not even which reading he selects at a particular…
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The Authentic New Testament Is Preserved in the Greek Received Text Tradition
The doctrine of preservation must eventually identify a text.
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BHS: The Last Complete Scholarly Edition of the Hebrew Bible
BHS remains the latest complete scholarly Hebrew Bible in the Biblia Hebraica line and the stated Old Testament base of the ESV. Its main text, apparatus, conjectures, and translation departures must nevertheless be kept distinct.
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Covenant or Testament? Berith, Diathēkē, and the Limits of the Legal Analogy
The Bible’s words for covenant and testament overlap without becoming interchangeable in every passage. Careful distinctions let the legal analogy serve theology rather than control it.
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The Received Text Must Not Be Simplistically Equated with One Immaculate Printed Edition
Providential preservation does not require one inspired printer or one independently immaculate early edition; it requires the church’s possession of the text God inspired and preserved.
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Stop Playing the Game: A Confessional Manifesto
A concluding confession for textual scholarship under Scripture: no neutrality, no academic magisterium, no retreat into KJV-onlyism, and no fear of man.
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The Traditional Text Must Be Evaluated as a Providential Whole
Modern textual criticism habitually presents each textual variant as an independent contest.
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Evidence Is Not the Instrument: Manuscripts, Editions, and the Rule of Faith
Manuscripts and critical apparatuses are indispensable witnesses, but the rule of faith is the divine text to which they witness. Confusing evidence with Scripture reverses their proper authority.
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Translations Are Recipients, Not Sources
The Authorized Version receives inspiration and infallibility derivatively, while preservation belongs to the authentic Hebrew and Greek texts.
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Preserved Through the Manuscripts: James White, Lane Keister, and Generic Preservation
James White and Lane Keister explicitly affirm preservation through manuscripts. The question is whether that affirmation yields an identifiable, publicly possessed, authentic text—or only surviving materials for reconstruction.
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The Critical-Text Case, Stated at Its Strongest
Before testing modern textual criticism for arbitrariness, its historical claims, evidential appeals, editorial methods, and principal modern forms must be stated as their strongest advocates state them.
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Certainty, Not the Probability of the Contrary
Bahnsen rejected an apologetic that makes Christianity highly probable while preserving the possibility of its contrary. What happens when the wording of the final authority remains provisional in principle?
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