Burgon and Hills elevated the traditional printed text above early manuscript evidence, but Scripture grants no translation textual perfection.
Refuting the King James Version-Onlyists: John William Burgon and Edward F. Hills
The Enduring Importance of the Documentary Approach to New Testament Textual Criticism (Comfort, Andrews, Colwell, Westcott and Hort)
The documentary approach prioritizes early manuscript evidence while using scribal habits and internal analysis to restore the original New Testament text.
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.
Assessing the Reliability of New Testament Manuscripts as Documents
New Testament manuscripts are reliable documents because early, diverse witnesses preserve a stable and recoverable text.
How Repeated Copying Produced Cumulative Textual Variants in the Greek New Testament Manuscripts
Repeated copying transmitted inherited readings and introduced new variants, yet manuscript comparison preserves the means to recover the Greek text.
How the Loss of the Original New Testament Manuscripts Has Not Created Textual Uncertainty
The loss of the New Testament autographs has not erased their wording, which survives across early, diverse, and verifiable manuscript witnesses.
Why the Greek New Testament Text Requires Examination
The Greek New Testament requires examination because handwritten transmission produced variants that must be tested against the earliest documentary evidence.
Why the Critical Text Restores the Original Words of the Original Texts
The Critical Text restores the New Testament by weighing early manuscripts, exposing scribal changes, and removing later additions.
