A documentary untangling of the Pastoral Epistles shows real textual complexity, but not textual chaos, and confirms a stable, recoverable Pauline text.
Untangling the Textual Complexities of the Pastoral Epistles
Debating the Ending of Romans: A Textual Analysis
A documentary analysis of Romans’ ending shows chapter 16 is authentic, verse 24 is secondary, and the doxology belongs after 16:23.
Tracing the Transmission: The Journey of the New Testament Text Through the Centuries
A documentary history of how the New Testament text was copied, varied, preserved, and restored from the autographs to modern Greek editions.
The Role of Colophons in Early New Testament Manuscripts
Colophons in New Testament manuscripts reveal scribes, readers, exemplars, and provenance, but they remain secondary to the text itself.
New Testament Textual Criticism: Navigating the Byzantine-Majority Text Debate
Why the Byzantine-Majority Text debate fails when early manuscript evidence, textual history, and the Alexandrian witnesses are weighed properly.
Why Acts Presents a Special Text-Critical Challenge
An in-depth documentary study of Acts textual variants, weighing major passages, manuscript evidence, and scribal habits to recover Luke’s original wording.
Fragments of Truth: The Value of Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 1 for the Gospel of Thomas
Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 1 is valuable because it dates Greek Thomas, exposes its textual fluidity, and shows its dependence on earlier gospel tradition.
On the Trail of the Original Text: New Testament Textual Criticism and Archaeology
Archaeology and manuscripts reveal how the New Testament was copied, dated, and restored through early papyri, codices, and disciplined textual criticism.
The Textual History of the Epistle to the Hebrews: A Comprehensive Study
A full study of Hebrews’ manuscript transmission, early papyri, major codices, scribal habits, and key variants within the Pauline tradition.
New Testament Textual Criticism: The Story of the Western Text
The Western text reveals how scribes expanded and paraphrased the New Testament, especially Acts, while earlier Alexandrian witnesses preserve the original wording.
