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Giving Bible readers what God said not what translators think God meant
Christian codices like Vaticanus and Sinaiticus copied a pre-Christian Jewish Greek Old Testament; they did not create a new Christian translation from Hebrew.
P46, dated 100–150 C.E., preserves the Pauline Epistles in stable form, refuting Ehrman’s claims of late collection and theological corruption.
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.
Vaticanus (B) preserves an early, conservative Septuagint and anchors Old Testament textual criticism alongside the Masoretic Text with exceptional reliability.
CBGM arose to manage vast, contaminated data and to direct readings by “coherence.” This chapter explains its birth, terms, and limits for beginners.
Greek manuscripts, ancient versions, and patristic quotations—how external evidence restores the original New Testament text with early, cross-regional agreement.
Textual variants in Matthew 25 reveal scribal expansions, yet early Alexandrian witnesses preserve the original, sharper readings.
A comprehensive textual analysis of Matthew 15 reveals early manuscript support for the original readings and common scribal expansions or harmonizations.
