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NA28: The Current Published Nestle-Aland Baseline
NA28 remains the current published Nestle-Aland edition, but it is neither the whole critical-text ecosystem nor the newest Greek main text in every New Testament book. This article defines exactly what NA28 controls in the reconstruction test.
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“Textual Criticism Has No Explicit Biblical Guidelines”: The Admission That Controls the System
Analyzes the methodological consequence of admitting that textual criticism has no explicit biblical guidelines for ordering its probabilistic canons.
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All New Testament Editions Are Eclectic: A Misleading Equivalence
Distinguishes correcting an inherited textual base from reconstructing a text from an aggregate and explains why calling every edition eclectic obscures that difference.
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Matthew 5:18 Reconsidered: The Law’s Continuity and the Text’s Continuity
Matthew 5:18 primarily promises the law’s enduring authority, yet that authority necessarily entails the continuity of its identifiable written words.
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The Self-Attesting Word and the Impossibility of Neutrality: Why God’s Revelation Cannot Be Authenticated by a Higher Human Court
Scripture bears God’s own authority and cannot be authenticated by a higher neutral court; evidence and reason serve beneath its self-attesting testimony.
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The Confessional Text, the Authorized Version, and What We Do Not Mean by KJV-Onlyism: Original-Language Authority, Faithful Translation, and Necessary Distinctions
Distinguishes original-language authenticity from derivative translation authority and defines the publication’s position on the Authorized Version and KJV-onlyism.
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The Word’s Testimony Concerning Itself
Scripture’s divine authority, self-attestation, and promise of preservation must govern the evidence rather than await permission from a neutral tribunal.
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There Are No Brute Manuscripts
“Let the manuscripts speak for themselves.”
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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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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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