Textual Issues
A structured research index for disputed readings, textual questions, manuscript evidence, printed editions, reception, and doctrinal consequence.
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Old Testament Textual Questions
Masoretic Text, Septuagint, Dead Sea Scrolls, Samaritan Pentateuch, vowel points, printed Hebrew Bibles, and major variants.
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Gospels and Acts, Pauline Epistles, General Epistles, and Revelation.
Browse New TestamentMajor Disputed Passages
Dedicated hubs for the most discussed and contested passages.
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This overview explains the subject first. The Research Center database provides the filterable record ledger for direct passage and evidence work.
Standard Dossier Structure
Every major passage page follows the same documented sequence.
- Competing readings
- English translations affected
- Greek or Hebrew evidence
- Manuscript evidence
- Versional evidence
- Patristic evidence
- Lectionary and ecclesiastical use
- Printed-text history
- Reformation-era reception
- Internal considerations
- Doctrinal and exegetical consequences
- Confessional conclusion
- Articles
- Books and papers
- Audio and video
- Downloadable comparison chart
Old Testament Research Hubs
The Hebrew textual tradition receives its own full research structure.
Passage-by-Passage Research
Textual Issues organizes disputed readings by testament, book division, and passage. A complete dossier should distinguish readings, translations, manuscript, versional, patristic, lectionary, printed-text, and Reformation evidence; internal considerations; doctrinal and exegetical consequences; and the confessional conclusion.
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- Major Disputed Passages
- New Testament Textual Questions
- Old Testament Textual Questions
Major Passage Status
- Matthew 6:13 — completed project treatment matched
- Matthew 17:21 — related or partial project treatment only
- Matthew 18:11 — dedicated treatment still needed
- Matthew 23:14 — dedicated treatment still needed
- Mark 16:9–20 — dedicated treatment still needed
- Luke 22:43–44 — related or partial project treatment only
- Luke 23:34 — dedicated treatment still needed
- John 1:18 — completed project treatment matched
- John 5:3b–4 — dedicated treatment still needed
- John 7:53–8:11 — dedicated treatment still needed
- Acts 8:37 — dedicated treatment still needed
- Acts 20:28 — related or partial project treatment only
- Romans 8:1 — dedicated treatment still needed
- Romans 16:24 — dedicated treatment still needed
- 1 Corinthians 5:7 — dedicated treatment still needed
- 1 Timothy 3:16 — related or partial project treatment only
- 1 John 5:7–8 — completed project treatment matched
- Jude 5 — dedicated treatment still needed
- Revelation 1:11 — dedicated treatment still needed
- Revelation 22:19 — dedicated treatment still needed