by Chris Thomas | Jul 22, 2026
Setting: Reformed and Lutheran-connected ecclesiastical-text advocacy; institutional affiliations changed across his career. Theodore P. Letis was an American historical theologian and controversial writer on the ecclesiastical text, canon, inspiration, and the rise...
by Chris Thomas | Jul 22, 2026
Setting: English Puritan and Westminster-era Reformed setting. Edward Leigh was an English scholar, parliamentarian, and prolific compiler whose works ranged across theology, history, ethics, and the biblical languages. His Critica Sacra assembled Hebrew and Greek...
by Chris Thomas | Jul 22, 2026
Setting: German classical and university philology. Karl Lachmann was a classical and German philologist whose New Testament editions became symbolic of a deliberate break with the Textus Receptus. His goal was not the autograph in a simple sense but a text associated...
by Chris Thomas | Jul 22, 2026
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...
by Chris Thomas | Jul 22, 2026
Setting: German Protestant university theology. Rudolf Kittel was a German Old Testament scholar and the founding editor of Biblia Hebraica. Early editions used the Second Rabbinic Bible as base; the third edition shifted to the Leningrad Codex, a decision that shaped...
