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Matthew 1:18 — “The Birth of Jesus Christ” or “The Genesis of Jesus Christ”?
The received Greek uses γέννησις, “birth.” The critical text uses γένεσις, a broader word for origin, coming-to-be, or genesis. Only one Greek letter separates them.
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How to Recognize Magisterial and Ministerial Textual Criticism in Practice
Ten diagnostic questions reveal whether textual criticism recognizes a preserved text as a servant or reconstructs an absent text as a judge.
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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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The Final Court of Appeal
Holy Scripture is the supreme external principle of theological knowledge and the final court judging every tradition, council, experience, and critical conclusion.
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The Church as Witness and Keeper, Not Creator or Master: How Christ’s Church Receives, Recognizes, Preserves, and Proclaims His Word
Christ’s church receives, recognizes, preserves, and proclaims the Word as its appointed witness and keeper, never as the source or master of Scripture’s authority.
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Scripture Interprets Scripture: The Canonical-Coherence Test
Scripture is its own infallible interpreter, but canonical synthesis cannot be used to silence local wording or conceal textual instability. This article establishes the test that distinguishes legitimate clarification, completion, qualification, and harmonization from theological repair.
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Textual Reading, Translation, and Interpretation: Three Different Questions
A Greek or Hebrew reading, an English translation, and an interpretation of that wording are related but distinct objects. This article establishes the controls needed to determine whether a doctrine belongs to a critical edition, to a translator’s repair, or to a…
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Inherited Theology and the Problem of Hidden Borrowing
No interpreter approaches Scripture without prior theology, but a reconstruction succeeds only when its material premises can be traced to the corpus under examination. This article distinguishes legitimate theological inheritance from hidden textual, translational, interpretive, and doctrinal borrowing.
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From Canon to Text
Confessional Bibliology, Stated and Defended — Thesis 10.
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Matthew 6:25 — “What Ye Shall Eat, or What Ye Shall Drink”: The Full Saying on Anxiety
The words or what ye shall drink have uneven support. Some witnesses omit the whole phrase; others keep drink but change the connector between eating and drinking.
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Testing Keister’s Method: Matthew 1:7–8, 10–19 and the Actual Variance
Compares Scrivener and NA28 across Matthew 1:7–8 and 10–19, testing Keister’s method at the Asa/Asaph and Amon/Amos readings and the passage’s remaining variants.
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BHQ: An Incomplete Successor and the Limits of Calling It ‘the Hebrew Critical Text’
BHQ improves the presentation of Leningrad, the Masorah, Judean Desert evidence, ancient versions, and textual commentary. Its incomplete fascicle set cannot yet function as one complete Hebrew Bible.
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