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The Fear of the Lord Is the Beginning of Textual Knowledge
The fear of the Lord is the abiding beginning of textual knowledge, ordering the critic’s object, evidence, motives, confidence, and accountability.
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The Holy Ghost, the Church, and Recognition of the Text
God gives his Word; the Holy Ghost bears witness to that Word; and the church receives it. That order is neither accidental nor reversible.
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The Bible Is Not Like Any Other Ancient Book
One sentence governs much of modern textual criticism: For the purposes of critical study, the Bible must be treated like any other ancient book.
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Richard Simon and the Roman Strategy of Textual Uncertainty
The preceding article examined John Owen’s refusal to let the learned apparatus become a court over Scripture. Nineteen years after Owen published that warning, Richard Simon supplied a remarkable demonstration of why it was necessary.
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From Enlightenment Criticism to Westcott and Hort
Richard Simon had converted textual uncertainty into an argument for Roman tradition. If the extant copies could not identify and interpret the Word of God with sufficient certainty, the church must provide the certainty the text lacked. The preceding article examined that…
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B. B. Warfield and the Evangelical Adoption of the Academy Game
Westcott and Hort did not invent restorationist textual criticism, but their 1881 edition gave it a commanding historical theory and an imposing scholarly form. The question confronting conservative Protestants was therefore no longer whether the new criticism existed. It was whether its…
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From Extant Infallibility to Lost-Autograph Inerrancy
Part Sixteen considered B. B. Warfield’s historical role in bringing restorationist textual criticism into conservative American theology. The present article turns from that history to the doctrinal change itself. What happens when the perfection of Scripture is located exclusively in the first…
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Where to begin in the textual debate?
All Roads Lead To? When it comes to learning about textual criticism the shear amount of reading necessary to understand just the basics seems monumental. Who do you read? Who do you ignore? Why are there so many different opinions? Sometimes you…
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Where to begin in the textual debate?
All Roads Lead To? When it comes to learning about textual criticism the shear amount of reading necessary to understand just the basics seems monumental. Who do you read? Who do you ignore? Why are there so many different opinions? Sometimes you…
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Historical Resources on Textual Criticism, Bible Versions, etc.
The information in this post comes from the following Facebook note of Sean McDonald. They will be added to The Library over the next 2 weeks along with many other books. May 27, 2013 at 8:10am The following online resources tend toward…
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Erasmian Myths: The Comma Wager
Erasmian Myths This year marks the 500th anniversary of the publication of Erasmus Greek New Testament and his Latin translation. And next week at Houston Baptist University there will be a conference on Erasmus and his work. In light of this, I…
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Are you Confessional, Atheistic, or Evangelical on the Doctrine of Scripture
Three Types of Consistency and Textual Criticism How we approach the work of textual criticism, must like all other doctrines, be derived from Scripture alone. This is evident from Chapter 1 of the WCF/2LBCF Confessions themselves: 10\. The supreme judge, by which…
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