New Testament textual studies begins with manuscripts, not speculation, and recovers the original wording through disciplined analysis of the documentary evidence.
Introduction to New Testament Textual Studies
The Text of 2 Peter: Observations and Explorations
A documentary study of 2 Peter’s text, showing how early witnesses and scribal habits help recover the original wording and sharpen its message.
The New Testament in the Light of Textual Criticism: The Gospel of Matthew
A documentary reading of Matthew shows that early manuscripts preserve a concise, stable text while later scribes often harmonized, clarified, and expanded it.
An Examination of the Apocalypse of John: A Textual Criticism Perspective
A full textual-critical study of the Apocalypse of John, showing how early manuscript evidence restores Revelation’s original wording and theological force.
The Didache and Its Implications for New Testament Textual Studies
The Didache illuminates how early Christians taught, quoted, and prayed the words of Jesus, sharpening how textual critics assess Gospel transmission.
Untangling the Textual Complexities of the Pastoral Epistles
A documentary untangling of the Pastoral Epistles shows real textual complexity, but not textual chaos, and confirms a stable, recoverable Pauline text.
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.
