The earliest recoverable text of Mark ends at 16:8; the longer endings reflect later scribal and ecclesiastical efforts to supply closure.
Rethinking the Long Ending of Mark: A Textual Criticism Perspective
The Stigma of Marcionism: Its Impact on New Testament Textual Criticism
Marcion’s edited Gospel and Pauline corpus created a lasting stigma that still shapes how textual critics weigh early variants, omissions, and patristic testimony.
Evaluating Modern English Translations: The Quest for Faithfulness to the Original Texts
Evaluating modern English Bible translations begins with the manuscript-based text and demands consistent, transparent methods in rendering Hebrew and Greek.
Understanding the Codex Sinaiticus and Codex Vaticanus: A Deep Dive
Codex Vaticanus and Codex Sinaiticus are early, extensive witnesses whose scribal features and agreements with papyri anchor the documentary text.
The Path to the Original: Ascertaining the Wording of New Testament Texts
Recovering the original New Testament wording rests on early manuscripts, disciplined documentary weighting, and sober analysis of scribal habits.
The Complexity of Textual Variants in the New Testament
This text discusses the preservation of the New Testament, emphasizing the importance of manuscript evidence and the presence of textual variants resulting from human copying.
Exploring the Rich History of New Testament Manuscripts
A manuscript-based tour of how the New Testament text was copied, corrected, and preserved across papyri, codices, versions, and Fathers.
The Process and Principles of New Testament Textual Criticism
How New Testament textual criticism restores the earliest attainable text by prioritizing documentary evidence while using internal evidence as a supplement.
Codex Vaticanus and Its Role in Preserving the Alexandrian Tradition
Codex Vaticanus offers an early, disciplined Alexandrian text of most of the New Testament, anchoring modern critical editions and confirming the stability of the original wording.
The Relationship Between Papyrus 75 and Codex Vaticanus
Papyrus 75 and Codex Vaticanus form a tightly related Alexandrian line, showing that Luke and John were transmitted with exceptional stability from the second to fourth century.
