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The Authentic Old Testament Is Preserved in the Hebrew Masoretic Textual Tradition
A doctrine of preservation that cannot identify the preserved text remains incomplete.
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The ECM, the CBGM, and the Reconstruction of an Initial Text
The ECM supplies the evidence and editorial decisions behind the newest hand editions, while the CBGM analyzes coherence within a contaminated tradition. Neither should be caricatured as an automatic computer-generated Bible.
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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 Book of the Covenant: Why God’s Binding Speech Takes Written Form
From Sinai to Josiah’s reform, Scripture presents the covenant word not as a recoverable religious gist but as a written, deposited, read, and guarded document.
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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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How Particular Readings May Be Tested
If textual criticism must be ministerial rather than magisterial, how should a particular reading actually be tested?
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An Apologetic with a Borrowed Standard: How Guild Dependence Weakens the Defense of the Faith
A Christian cannot consistently challenge autonomous reason after granting it final jurisdiction over the identity of Scripture. The defense of the faith must begin under Christ’s Lordship, including its textual foundation.
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Ecclesiastical Reception Recognizes the Text but Does Not Create It
The church does not make the Bible. The Bible makes the church.
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Reasoning with Unbelievers and Heretics under Scripture’s Final Court
The Christian must answer unbelief and heresy without surrendering Scripture’s authority to a supposedly neutral court.
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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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Diplomatic and Eclectic Editions: Why the Old and New Testament Projects Are Not Identical
BHS and BHQ reproduce an identified Hebrew manuscript above the apparatus; Nestle–Aland and UBS print an eclectic editorial reconstruction. The projects must not be described as though they were identical.
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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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