Jan Krans is a Dutch textual critic known for research on the editorial practices of Erasmus, Stephanus, Beza, and the history of the Textus Receptus.
Setting: Dutch academic textual criticism.
Jan Krans is a Dutch textual critic known for research on the editorial practices of Erasmus, Stephanus, Beza, and the history of the Textus Receptus. His work on conjectural emendation and the New Testament Virtual Manuscript Room also contributes to current digital criticism.
The Research Center should use his primary-source discoveries even where it disputes his authority framework. Accurate evidence about a received edition’s printing history is not owned by either side of the theological debate.
Bibliological positions
Printed Greek editions are historical editorial products to be reconstructed and criticized; no Textus Receptus edition possesses presumptive authority over manuscript and internal evidence.
Qualifications and disputes
Historical demonstration that editors used conjecture or limited evidence does not alone decide the confessional question of reception and providence.
The theological weight of editorial history, the scope of conjecture, and the definition of Textus Receptus are disputed.
Sources
- Amsterdam Centre for New Testament Studies search — Institutional and project material
- Amsterdam New Testament Weblog — Public textual studies
Principal works
- Beyond What Is Written: Erasmus and Beza as Conjectural Critics of the New Testament (2006); legacy
WRK-1219; WRK; Ready after permanent-ID allocation and duplicate scan
Historical person network
People, doctrines, texts, and reported interactions
Relationship labels distinguish contact, refutation, later reporting, accusation, textual agreement, compatibility, and causation. A connection does not silently inherit the force of another connection.
Interaction chart
No reviewed graph relationships are attached yet.
- Record
- PER-3046
- Status
- Preliminary
- Version
- 1.1-profile
- Review
- Level B — Editorial synthesis
- Editor
- Chris Thomas
- Reviewer
- Independent reviewer pending assignment
- First date
- 2026-07-22 · Exact Day
- Last revised
- 2026-07-22
Evidence and editorial controls
- Verification
- Recovered project data; bibliographic and source-level verification remains record-specific.
- Rights and access
- Original editorial synthesis; cited sources retain their stated rights.
- Known limitations
- Sourced orientation record. Education, dated offices, languages, confessional subscription, verified quotations, and independent review may remain incomplete.
Links from this record
No public outgoing links are recorded.
Records that cite or connect here
No public backlinks are recorded.
Corrections and evidence submissions
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Chris Thomas, “Jan Krans,” PER-3046, Confessional Bibliology Research Center, version 1.0-staging.
Revision history
- — Chris Thomas
- — Chris Thomas