Westcott and Hort broke from the Textus Receptus, while Nestle-Aland refined their text through papyri, apparatus work, and genealogy.
Westcott, Hort, and the Nestle-Aland Text: The Next Evolution
Introduction to Erasmus’ Textus Receptus
How did a Renaissance Greek edition become the “Received Text,” and what authority does its history and manuscript foundation justify?
The Overstated Promise of the Coherence-Based Genealogical Method (Tommy Wasserman and Klaus Wachtel)
CBGM maps textual relationships effectively, but its genealogies depend on editorial judgments and cannot replace early manuscript evidence.
Radical Conservatism in New Testament Textual Criticism (Zane C. Hodges and Arthur L. Farstad)
Hodges and Farstad defended the Byzantine Majority Text, but manuscript ancestry, early papyri, and scribal habits outweigh simple numerical dominance.
Reasoned Conservatism in New Testament Textual Criticism (Harry A. Sturz)
Harry A. Sturz’s reasoned conservatism restored Byzantine readings to serious evaluation without establishing Byzantine textual priority.
Radical Eclecticism in New Testament Textual Criticism (G. D. Kilpatrick and J. K. Elliott)
Radical eclecticism prioritizes internal evidence, but its rejection of manuscript pedigree exposes textual decisions to subjectivity.
How the Early Papyri Support Only the Alexandrian Type of New Testament Texts and Not the Byzantine Texts
The earliest New Testament papyri confirm an ancient Alexandrian textual stream while providing no evidence for a developed Byzantine text.
Debunking Modern Scholars Who Deliberately Shifted the Goal from Recovering the Original Readings to Reconstructing the Earliest Attainable Texts
Modern scholars redefined textual criticism’s goal, but early manuscripts still support recovering the New Testament’s original wording.
The Alexandrian Texts as the Foremost Witnesses to the Original Greek New Testament Texts
Early papyri and codices show why the Alexandrian tradition gives the strongest documentary access to the original Greek New Testament.
Tracing the Genealogical Relationships Among Greek New Testament Manuscripts
Manuscript genealogy traces the ancestry of New Testament readings through collation, textual families, scribal habits, contamination, and documentary evidence.
