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Giving Bible readers what God said not what translators think God meant
Early New Testament manuscripts used no punctuation. Its gradual introduction reveals how Christian scribes sought to aid clarity without altering Scripture.
Early Christians used codices for public reading, teaching, and preservation, ensuring faithful transmission of the apostolic writings.
The textual families of the New Testament reveal how the Alexandrian tradition preserves the earliest and most accurate form of the inspired Greek text.
Early Alexandrian correctors preserved the New Testament text with extraordinary precision, ensuring fidelity to the earliest exemplars through disciplined corrections.
The New Testament text is anchored by early papyri and major codices, yielding a stable, public, and verifiable text closely matching the first-century autographs.
The New Testament stands as the most thoroughly documented body of literature from the ancient world, surpassing all others in manuscript evidence and reliability.
Christian codices like Vaticanus and Sinaiticus copied a pre-Christian Jewish Greek Old Testament; they did not create a new Christian translation from Hebrew.
Mark 2’s earliest Alexandrian witnesses preserve concise, original readings; later manuscripts add harmonizations, clarifications, or omissions.
Meet the core sources of NT textual criticism: early papyri, the great uncials, and key minuscules, and see how external evidence restores the original text.
Early papyri, major codices, ancient versions, and patristic quotes together secure a reliable, reconstructable New Testament text grounded in documentary evidence.
