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Has the Bible Been Kept Pure?
Alternate title: The Westminster Confession of Faith and the Providential Preservation of Scripture
Independently published, 2017.
Milne argues from primary Reformation and post-Reformation sources that Westminster Confession 1.8 teaches providential preservation of the complete wording of Scripture in accessible Hebrew and Greek copies, not merely preservation of doctrine or a recoverable text hidden across the manuscript tradition. Extended…
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A Plea for the Received Greek Text and for the Authorised Version of the New Testament
Alternate title: In Answer to Some of the Dean of Canterbury's Criticisms on Both
London: Hatchards, 187 Piccadilly, W., 1869.
Malan replies to Henry Alford's critical Greek text and English revisions through detailed discussion of selected readings and renderings in Matthew 1–4 and Titus. He uses Greek grammar, classical parallels, patristic testimony, and ancient versions to defend the Received Text and the…
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The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture
Alternate title: The Effect of Early Christological Controversies on the Text of the New Testament
New York: Oxford University Press, 1993; paperback 1996.
Ehrman argues that some scribal changes in the New Testament arose from second- and third-century Christological controversy. After establishing the diversity of early Christian groups and the fluidity of manuscript transmission, he organizes variants by their apparent anti-adoptionist, anti-separationist, anti-docetic, and anti-patripassian…
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A New Approach to Textual Criticism
Alternate title: An Introduction to the Coherence-Based Genealogical Method
Atlanta: SBL Press; Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 2017.
Wasserman and Gurry give the first book-length English introduction to the Coherence-Based Genealogical Method used in the Catholic Epistles and Acts of the Editio Critica Maior. They explain local stemmata, potential ancestors and descendants, pre-genealogical and genealogical coherence, textual flow diagrams, contamination,…
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The Ecclesiastical Text
Alternate title: Text Criticism, Biblical Authority and the Popular Mind
Philadelphia: Institute for Renaissance and Reformation Biblical Studies, 1997.
This collection of Letis's essays argues for a 'post-critical' recovery of the New Testament as an ecclesiastically received text. Letis contrasts the Protestant dogmaticians' appeal to the authentic Hebrew and Greek copies with Warfield's doctrine of inerrant but lost autographs, traces the…
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Textual Scholarship and the Making of the New Testament
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
Parker explains how manuscripts, editorial theory, digital tools, and the history of transmission shape what modern readers call the New Testament text. He argues that a work's textual history cannot be reduced to recovery of a single authorial wording, describes the New…
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In Defense of the Authenticity of 1 John 5:7
Bloomington: WestBow Press, 2016; copyright 2015; revised August 3, 2016.
Pappas offers a sustained popular-level defense of the Comma Johanneum, combining the grammar of 1 John 5, Latin and Greek transmission, patristic and conciliar references, the history of Erasmus's editions, and theological arguments from providential preservation. The volume gathers many older pro-Comma…
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A Short Sum of Christianity
Alternate title: A Short Sum of Christianity, Delivered by Way of Catechisme
London: printed by J. Y. for Thomas Slater, 1651.
This compact catechism presents the principal heads of Reformed Christian doctrine in a sequence of questions and answers. It begins with Scripture as the inspired and perfect rule, directs readers to the original languages, prayer, comparison of passages, and the analogy of…
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A History of the Debate over 1 John 5:7-8
Alternate title: A Tracing of the Longevity of the Comma Johanneum, with Evaluations of Arguments Against Its Authenticity
Tempe, Arizona: Comma Publications, 1995.
Maynard assembles a chronological and bibliographical history of the Comma Johanneum from early patristic and versional evidence through the medieval Latin tradition, Erasmus and the printed Greek text, Reformation controversy, and modern criticism. He defends the authenticity of the traditional wording of…
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The Apologetic Implications of Self-Deception
Alternate title: A Conditional Resolution of the Apparent Paradox of Self-Deception
Ph.D. dissertation, University of Southern California, 1978; later Covenant Media Foundation edition.
Bahnsen examines the apparent paradox of self-deception: how a person can in some sense know a truth while believing or professing its contrary. He evaluates influential philosophical accounts of belief, intention, motivation, awareness, and other-deception, states seven criteria for an adequate theory,…
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A Textual History of the King James Bible
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, copyright 2004; first published 2005.
Norton reconstructs the textual history of the King James Bible from the translators' surviving notes and working evidence through the two 1611 printings, early correction, eighteenth-century standardization, Scrivener's nineteenth-century edition, and Norton's own New Cambridge Paragraph Bible. Computer-assisted collations and extensive appendices…
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The Text of the New Testament
Alternate title: Its Transmission, Corruption, and Restoration
New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.
Metzger and Ehrman survey the physical production of ancient books, the principal Greek manuscripts, versions and Fathers, the history of printed editions, causes of accidental and intentional change, theories of transmission, and the practice of evaluating variants. The fourth edition updates Metzger's…
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