Colophons in New Testament manuscripts reveal scribes, readers, exemplars, and provenance, but they remain secondary to the text itself.
The Role of Colophons in Early New Testament Manuscripts
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.
The Textual Relationship Between the Pauline Epistles and the Acts of the Apostles
Acts supplies the historical framework of Paul’s mission, while the Pauline Epistles reveal its doctrinal depth, pastoral burden, and early textual transmission.
The Influence of the Caesarean Text-Type on the Gospel of Mark
The Caesarean text influenced the transmission of Mark most clearly in expansion, harmonization, and the spread of secondary readings.
The Apostolic Fathers and Their Impact on New Testament Textual Criticism
The Apostolic Fathers function as early indirect witnesses whose citations and allusions corroborate and sometimes illuminate New Testament textual variants.
