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The Received Text: A Field Guide
Taylor DeSoto, The Received Text: A Field Guide (Kept Pure Press, 2024).
DeSoto offers a short, accessible guide to the Received Text debate. The book distinguishes text-base and translation questions, describes competing positions, introduces arguments for the TR, critiques labels, and defends continued use of the KJV without equating a translation with the original-language…
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Why I Preach from the Received Text
Jeffrey T. Riddle and Christian M. McShaffrey, eds., Why I Preach from the Received Text (The Greater Heritage, 2022).
This multi-author volume gathers pastors and scholars who argue for preaching from the Received or traditional ecclesiastical text. The essays range from doctrinal and apologetic arguments to pastoral testimony, historical reflection, and practical advice for churches. Its central theme is that the…
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Authorized: The Use and Misuse of the King James Bible
Mark Ward, Authorized: The Use and Misuse of the King James Bible (Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2018).
Ward argues that English-speaking churches should confront the KJV’s obsolete vocabulary and semantic change rather than assume that inherited familiarity guarantees comprehension. The book offers concrete examples of “false friends,” discusses readability measures, and makes a positive case for vernacular translation. The…
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Critical History of the Text of the New Testament
Alternate title: Wherein Is Established the Truth of the Acts on Which the Christian Religion Is Based
Richard Simon, Critical History of the Text of the New Testament, trans., intro., and ann. Andrew Hunwick (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2013).
This scholarly edition makes Richard Simon’s seventeenth-century Critical History accessible in English with an introduction and annotations by Andrew Hunwick. Simon’s work is a major primary witness to the development of early modern historical criticism of the New Testament text, raising questions…
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The Inspiration of Scripture
Robert D. Preus, The Inspiration of Scripture, 2nd ed. (St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1957).
Preus investigates seventeenth-century Lutheran dogmaticians on inspiration, authority, and canon. The preface establishes a representative selection of orthodox Lutheran writers and identifies the book’s historical purpose: to correct later accounts that depict the period as merely sterile or mechanical. The study is…
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Theopneustia: The Bible, Its Divine Origin and Inspiration
Louis Gaussen, Theopneustia: The Bible, Its Divine Origin and Inspiration (Cincinnati: George S. Blanchard, 1859).
Gaussen defends verbal and plenary inspiration against thought-only accounts, then answers objections involving translations, the Septuagint, variants, historical narratives, and criticism. The final chapters are especially important: sacred criticism may inquire, record, and guard, but it may not sit in judgment over…
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Treatises Concerning the Scriptures
Alternate title: Of the Divine Original of the Scriptures; Integrity and Purity of the Hebrew and Greek Text
John Owen, Treatises Concerning the Scriptures, in The Works of John Owen, vol. 16, ed. William H. Goold (Edinburgh: Johnstone and Hunter, 1853).
The relevant Owen treatises give a mature seventeenth-century Reformed account of Scripture’s divine original and of the integrity and purity of the Hebrew and Greek text. Owen distinguishes autographs, copies, variants, translations, and printed forms without allowing those distinctions to empty the…
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The Canon of the Holy Scriptures
Alternate title: From the Double Point of View of Science and of Faith
London: James Nisbet and Co., 1863.
Gaussen combines a historical case for the canon with a theological account of the believer’s certainty. He deliberately distinguishes evidence that may address the unbeliever from the divine ground of faith by which the church receives Scripture. The book mobilizes patristic testimony,…
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A Disputation on Holy Scripture
Alternate title: Against the Papists, Especially Bellarmine and Stapleton
William Whitaker, A Disputation on Holy Scripture, trans. William Fitzgerald; Titus Books digital edition, 2013.
Whitaker’s classic Reformation disputation answers Roman arguments on canon, authentic editions, authority, perspicuity, interpretation, and traditions. His central claims are that Scripture’s authority does not arise from the church, that Hebrew and Greek originals must not be confused with translations, and that…
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The King James Only Controversy
Alternate title: Can You Trust the Modern Translations?
Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1995.
White’s polemical introduction to the King James-only controversy distinguishes translation questions from questions about the Hebrew and Greek text, rejects English re-inspiration, and argues for contemporary translations and case-by-case eclectic textual criticism. Its accessible taxonomy and local illustrations have made it influential…
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The Enduring Authority of the Christian Scriptures
Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2016
Garnet Howard Milne cites this book / treatise in the secondary material of Has the Bible Been Kept Pure? The record preserves Milne's exact citation and source-page evidence. Current access research is labeled: Open Library catalog record. Its textual methodology has not…
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John Goodwin and the Puritan Revolution. Religion and Intellectual Change in 17th century England (Woodbridge: Boydell press, 2006)
Woodbridge: Boydell press, 2006
Garnet Howard Milne cites this book / treatise in the secondary material of Has the Bible Been Kept Pure? The record preserves Milne's exact citation and source-page evidence. Current access research is labeled: Discovery search. Its textual methodology has not yet been…
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