Journal of Confessional Bibliology — Scripture Alone, Preserved by Providence

Richard Bentley

Setting: Church of England and early Enlightenment classical scholarship. Richard Bentley was an English classical scholar and textual emender. In response to controversy over John Mill’s variants, he argued that differences among later copies did not threaten...

Johann Gottfried Eichhorn

Setting: German Protestant Enlightenment university scholarship. Johann Gottfried Eichhorn was a German orientalist and biblical critic whose introductions helped establish historical-critical study of the Old Testament and later the New Testament. He brought...

J. Keith Elliott

Setting: British university biblical scholarship. J. Keith Elliott is a British New Testament scholar known for textual criticism, Christian apocrypha, and thoroughgoing eclecticism. His work continues a line associated with George D. Kilpatrick in which the critic...

Eldon Jay Epp

Setting: American Protestant university and seminary scholarship. Eldon Jay Epp was an American New Testament textual critic whose work on Codex Bezae, textual clusters, race, and the concept of the original text broadened the discipline beyond selecting individual...

Gordon D. Fee

Setting: Pentecostal and evangelical academic theology. Gordon Fee was a Pentecostal New Testament scholar known for textual studies, Pauline and Johannine exegesis, and widely used works on interpretation. He argued that textual criticism is integral to exegesis and...