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Giving Bible readers what God said not what translators think God meant
Early Christian paleography shows disciplined hands, papyrus-to-parchment advances, and codex design that secured a stable New Testament text from the second century.
Textual criticism restores the New Testament’s original words by weighing early manuscripts, prioritizing documentary evidence, and correcting later additions.
Foundational guide to New Testament textual criticism, defining its aims, scope, and why establishing the original text must precede exegesis and translation.
A line-by-line, material and textual case shows Codex Sinaiticus is a genuine fourth-century Bible, not a nineteenth-century forgery or Simonides hoax.
Codex Sinaiticus dates to 330–360 C.E., shown by fourth-century script, four-column layout, Eusebian apparatus, carbon ink main text, and early correction layers.
Early papyri and the documentary method show how the New Testament’s original, inerrant text is identifiable, stable, and historically recoverable.
The Book of Acts presents unique challenges in textual criticism, but early Alexandrian manuscripts allow us to restore the original text with a high degree of confidence
Early nomina sacra reveal a stable scribal culture in the New Testament’s transmission, offering key evidence for establishing original readings across manuscripts.
How literate were early Christians, and who preserved their books? A deep dive into readers, lectors, scribes, and the documentary evidence that guarded the text.
The Byzantine text-type reflects later ecclesiastical tradition, not the original wording of the New Testament, which is preserved in the early Alexandrian witnesses.
